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Roberto Bolano Quotes: Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
         

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.


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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.



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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.



Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.



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 been scorpions.

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 been scorpions.



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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.



In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.



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.

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.



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

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



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.

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.





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