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Quotes About Emotion

Demasiado bonito para que durara, ya saben, los espíritus singulares no soportan tanto amor, tanta perfección encontrada por casualidad
~ Roberto Bolano
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 Bolano
His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.
~ Roberto Bolano
It was the tyrannical, slightly stupid thing you say after you've made love.
~ Roberto Bolano
Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.
~ Roberto Bolano
Loneliness is an aspect of natural human egotism.
~ Roberto Bolano
Y qué amor puede sostenerse mucho tiempo si a una no la besan en la boca?
~ Roberto Bolano
Se puede conquistar a una muchacha con un poema, pero no se la puede retener con un poema. Vaya, ni siquiera con un movimiento poético.
~ Roberto Bolano
He turned his face into the stream of water and closed his eyes. I'm not as sad as I'd have thought, he told himself. This is all unreal, he said to himself.
~ Roberto Bolano
Right now you can cry and let your image dissolve on the windshields of cars parked along the Boardwalk. But you can't lose yourself.
~ Roberto Bolano
Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all I did was start to cry like a fool, for no apparent reason.
~ Roberto Bolano
Silence is love just as your raspy voice is a bird.
~ Roberto Bolano
I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.
~ Roberto Bolano
Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.
~ Roberto Bolano
I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.
~ Roberto Bolano
Quiere decir que cree que Kelly está muerta?, le grité. Más o menos, dijo sin perder un ápice de compostura. ¿Cómo que más o menos?, grité. O se está muerto o no se está muerto, chingados! En México uno puede estar más o menos muerto, me contestó muy seriamente.
~ Roberto Bolano
The thing was, I didn't love him anymore. You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a whole poetry movement.
~ Roberto Bolano
dizzied, thrilled, depressed by remembering...
~ Roberto Bolano
They fucked until she was nothing more than a tremor in his arms.
~ Roberto Bolano
La pasión es geometría. Rombos, cilindros, ángulos latidores. La pasión es geometría que cae al abismo, observada desde el fondo del abismo.
~ Roberto Bolano
Y no hicimos el amor. O tal vez ese "no hacer el amor" fue nuestra manera de hacer el amor.
~ Roberto Bolano
Como dicen los gángsters, no es nada personal, Max. Por supuesto, en esa aseveración hay algo de verdad y algo de mentira. Siempre es algo personal. Hemos llegado indemnes a través de un túnel del tiempo porque es algo personal. Te he elegido a ti porque es algo personal
~ Roberto Bolano
Antes de salir la miraba, durante unos segundos, abandonada entre las sábanas, y a veces se sentía tan lleno de amor que se hubiera puesto a llorar ahí mismo.
~ Roberto Bolano
First, the need to be near Liz Norton struck some time before he got back to his apartment in Madrid. By the time he was on the plane he'd realized that she was the perfect woman, the one he'd always hoped to find, and he began to suffer.
~ Roberto Bolano