Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors. - Roberto Bolano
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
- Roberto Bolano
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, … - Roberto Bolano
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, …
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation. - Roberto Bolano
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune. - Roberto Bolano
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening … - Roberto Bolano
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening …
You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for. - Roberto Bolano
You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.
What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and… - Roberto Bolano
What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and…
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have b… - Roberto Bolano
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have b…
Every hundred feet the world changes - Roberto Bolano
Every hundred feet the world changes
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