Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

— Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño Quotes

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

— Roberto Bolaño

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

— Roberto Bolaño

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.

— Roberto Bolaño

When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.

— Roberto Bolaño

Reading is more important than writing.

— Roberto Bolaño

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Only in chaos are we conceivable.

— Roberto Bolaño

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

— Roberto Bolaño

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.

— Roberto Bolaño

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

— Roberto Bolaño

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

— Roberto Bolaño

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.

— Roberto Bolaño

There’s no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.

— Roberto Bolaño

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.

— Roberto Bolaño

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

— Roberto Bolaño

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats.

— Roberto Bolaño

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.

— Roberto Bolaño

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

— Roberto Bolaño

You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

— Roberto Bolaño

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.

— Roberto Bolaño

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.

— Roberto Bolaño

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