The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.
Interpretation
Life often contains unseen complexities and stories that shape our existence beyond our awareness.
This quote by Roberto Bolano suggests that there is an underlying narrative to our lives that we may never fully comprehend. We go through daily routines believing we have everything figured out, but the true essence of our existence—its intricacies and what we often overlook—carries significant weight and influence that goes unseen.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-awareness, this quote could highlight the importance of recognizing the unseen narratives in our lives.
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.
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.
The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
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