Roberto Bolaño
"Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach."
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"Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach."
"القراءة كالتفكير، كالصلاة، كمحادثة صديق، كالتعبير عن أفكارك، كالإصغاء لأفكار الآخرين، كاستماع الموسيقى، كتأمل منظر طبيعي، كالمشي على شاطئ البحر."
Roberto Bolaño
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"Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better"
"لا خير يأتي من الحب قط. ما يأتي من الحب هو دائمًا شيء أسمى."
Roberto Bolaño
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"Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I said. That you end up being friends with writers. And friendship, treasure though it may be, destroys your critical sense."
"أتدري ما أسوأ ما في الأدب؟ قال دون بانكراسيو. كنت أعرف، لكنني تظاهرت بالجهل. ما هو؟ قلت. أنك في النهاية تصادق الكُتّاب. والصداقة، وإن كانت كنزًا، تدمر حسّك النقدي."
Roberto Bolaño
"Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace."
"الكتب متناهية، واللقاءات الجنسية متناهية، لكن الرغبة في القراءة والرغبة في المضاجعة لا متناهيتان؛ إنهما تتجاوزان موتنا، ومخاوفنا، وآمالنا في السلام."
Roberto Bolaño
"“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”"
"الكتب محدودة، واللقاءات الجنسية محدودة، لكن الرغبة في القراءة وفي الجماع لا متناهية؛ إنها تتجاوز موتنا، ومخاوفنا، وآمالنا في السلام."
Roberto Bolaño
"Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage."
"تأبيني: يبدو كاسم مصارع روماني، مصارع لم يُقهر. على الأقل، هذا ما يود المسكين تأبيني أن يصدقه. إنه يمنحه الشجاعة."
Roberto Bolaño
"... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile."
"... كانت الرواية، التي يمكن القول إنها أفضل أعمال الكاتب، تمتلك قوة مقلقة، كتمساح نائم."
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."
"المرآة الأمريكية، قال الصوت، المرآة الأمريكية الحزينة للثراء والفقر والتحول الدائم عديم الجدوى، المرآة التي تبحر وأشرعتها الألم."
Roberto Bolaño
"I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I really consider myself to be in a foreign country when I could go walking back to my own country right now if I wanted, and it wouldn't even take very long? Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?"
Roberto Bolaño
"Life is mysterious as well as vulgar."
Roberto Bolaño
"An individual is no match for history."
Roberto Bolaño
"While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found."
Roberto Bolaño
"The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all."
Roberto Bolaño
"One night I dreamed of an angel: I walked into a huge, empty bar and saw him sitting in a corner with his elbows on the table and a cup of milky coffee in front of him. She’s the love of your life, he said, looking up at me, and the force of his gaze, the fire in his eyes, threw me right across the room. I started shouting, Waiter, waiter, then opened my eyes and escaped from that miserable dream. Other nights I didn’t dream of anyone, but I woke up in tears."
Roberto Bolaño
"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."
Roberto Bolaño
"Only poetry isn't shit."
Roberto Bolaño
"El silencio de la muerte es el peor de los silencios, porque el silencio rulfiano es un silencio aceptado y el rimbaudiano es un silencio buscado, pero el silencio de la muerte es el que corta de tajo lo que pudo ser y nunca más va a poder ser, lo que no sabremos jamás."
Roberto Bolaño
"Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace."
Roberto Bolaño
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