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Quotes About Revelation

The truth is like a strung-out pimp in the middle of a storm.
~ Roberto Bolano
No os lo vais a creer, pero ayer por la noche, a eso de las cuatro de la madrugada, vi en la tele una película que era mi biografía o mi autobiografía o un resumen de mis días en el puto planeta Tierra. Me cago en la hostia santa, el susto que me dio casi me hizo que me cayera del sillón.
~ Roberto Bolano
En un oasis uno puede beber, comer, curarse las heridas, descansar, pero si el oasis es de horror, si sólo existen oasis de horror, el viajero podrá confirmar, esta vez de forma fehaciente, que la carne es triste, que llega un día en que todos los libros están leídos y que viajar es un espejismo. Hoy, todo parece indicar que sólo existen oasis de horror o que la deriva de todo oasis es hacia el horror.
~ Roberto Bolano
Allí, el personaje dice ay o empalidece. Como si estuviera dentro de un caleidoscopio y viera el ojo que lo mira. Colores que se ordenan en una geometría ajena a todo lo que tú estás dispuesto a aceptar como bueno.
~ Roberto Bolano
A blind life in which everything had the transparency of water.
~ Roberto Bolano
For a moment I thought he was going to cry, but suddenly, before he said anything, I realized that I'd be the one who cried, that inevitably, it would be me who cried.
~ Roberto Bolano
Hemos encontrado a Cesárea Tinajero.
~ Roberto Bolano
One never knows anything about one's father. A father ... is a passageway immersed in the deepest darkness, where we stumble blindly seeking a way out.
~ Roberto Bolano
Il prato sente una stanchezza felice, – disse il bambino, con il tono di chi rivela un segreto, – come quando si corre molto nel gioco.
~ Roberto Piumini
There's something about seeing people when they have just wake up--before they have a chance to put on the face they show everyone else. There's like this last hint of innocence.
~ Robin Brande
How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
~ Robin Hobb
Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.
~ Robin Hobb
Surprise!-FitzChivalry
~ Robin Hobb
A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more.
~ Robin Hobb
some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.
~ Robin Hobb
There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.
~ Robin Hobb
There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
~ Robin Hobb
It was right, what they said: Enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.
~ Robin Hobb
And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.
~ Robin Hobb
He came one late, wet spring, and brought the wide world back to my doorstep.
~ Robin Hobb
No man should be reminded that he has screamed in front of people who delighted in it.
~ Robin Hobb
Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.
~ Robin Hobb
Once a person had realized death, if they could turn aside from pain they immediately turned toward wonder and Sa. It took both steps, Wintrow knew that. If a person had not accepted death as a reality, the touch could be refused. Some accepted death and the touch, but could not let go of their pain. They clung to it as a final vestige of life.
~ Robin Hobb
Never pretend we are anything but what we are. Assassins.
~ Robin Hobb