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Literature + Illness = Illness

Roberto Bolano

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Roberto Bolano
Age: 50 †
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
Died: 2003
Died: July 16
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Santiago
Chile
Ay
Hipster
Illness
Literature

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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.
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If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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