Roberto Bolaño: Frases en inglés

Roberto Bolaño era escritor y poeta chileno. Frases en inglés.
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“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.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro 2666

Fuente: 2666

“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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Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes

Fuente: The Savage Detectives

“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.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro 2666

Fuente: 2666

“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. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro Llamadas telefónicas

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Last Evenings on Earth (2006)

“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.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes

Fuente: The Savage Detectives

“Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes

Fuente: The Savage Detectives

“Reading is more important than writing.”

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Roberto Bolaño

Fuente: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“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.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro Nocturno de Chile

Fuente: By Night in Chile

“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro 2666

Fuente: 2666

“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes

Variante: There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Fuente: The Savage Detectives

“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro 2666

Fuente: 2666

“They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him….”

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Roberto Bolaño libro 2666

Fuente: 2666

“I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro Amuleto

Fuente: Amulet

“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes

Fuente: The Savage Detectives

“Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.”

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Roberto Bolaño libro 2666

Fuente: 2666

“We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?”

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Roberto Bolaño libro Los detectives salvajes

Fuente: The Savage Detectives

“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.”

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Roberto Bolaño

“For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…”

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Roberto Bolaño libro 2666

Fuente: 2666