Dead Souls
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He liked not so much what he was reading about as the reading itself, or, better, the process of reading, the fact that letters are eternally forming some word, which sometimes even means the devil knows what.
“Instead I waited, which is what the Nude Descending a Staircase does, contrary to one's expectation and which is exactly why it has always provoked such a peculiar critical response.”
― The Savage Detectives
― The Savage Detectives
“I'm not here to be stronger than you.”
― Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
― Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
“My genius is crumbling. I’m not complaining; it’s just that it hurts”
― Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
― Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
“I’m a chattering blackbird—I’m a puddle of oil—I’m a child sitting on the floor wanting to be rewarded. ... (We are never more than assistants to the void).”
― Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
― Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
“Not everyone is endowed with the vice of writing—the vice of writing—a limited number even—I wander sinuously—am i translucent?—I like twisting myself twist me—embrace me—So Im I’ll loved—for being so much loved—I’ll go much further one day I’ll stop the detox—I’ll stop writing—and I’ll rush blindly—whore or not—living dead with no way back—I’ll start with a suicide—I’ll no longer be blind—I’ll find it so hard to bear the idea of writing and reading in the half-light that I’ll forget instantly—never again will I win any victories—I’ll live in the sunshine because I’m strong and because spitting Indian ink is no more my profession than love”
― Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
― Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
Roberto Bolaño
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