Quotes from Last Evenings on Earth — Roberto Bolaño
1953–2003 Chile
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
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.
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
That night when he went back to his hotel, he wept for his dead children and all the other castrated boys, for his own lost youth, for those who were young no longer and those who died young, for those who fought for Salvador Allende and those who were too scared to fight.
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)