Mia Arts

“I no longer ask for all the loneliness of love or the tranquility of love or for the mirrors.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Antwerp

“There are fourteen million people living in Mexico City. I'll never see the visceral realists again. And I'll never go back to the university or to Álamo's workshop either. I don't know what I'm going to tell my aunt and uncle. I finished Aphrodite, the book by Louys, and now I'm reading the dead Mexican poets, my future colleagues.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“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.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“Loneliness is an aspect of natural human egotism.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Antwerp