Roberto Bolaño Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. …I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy. 2666

2. Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better Amulet

3. Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life, and, on rare occasions, happiness. 2666

4. All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them. 2666

5. Florita Almada had nothing to say. When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process. 2666

6. Only poetry isn't shit.

7. 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.

8. There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. The Savage Detectives