Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won’t be the same as the one we’ve got now, but it’ll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don’t make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the inevitability of change and loss in life, suggesting that while we may lose cherished things, we should embrace new experiences.
In this poignant quote by Roberto Bolano, the speaker acknowledges the transience of life and the inevitable passage of time, which causes us to lose things we hold dear. The act of drinking and sharing in memories serves as a reminder to savor the present, even as we face the bittersweet reality of change and mortality, suggesting that while we may not be able to recreate the past, we can still find joy in new experiences that come our way.
In practice
This quote can be used at a gathering to encourage friends to cherish their time together.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us _x000D_ _x000D_ talking about getting guns out of the schools. _x000D_ _x000D_ How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, _x000D_ _x000D_ if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems _x000D_ _x000D_ without violence?
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.