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Amulet QUOTES

Amulet QUOTES

1 " Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

2 " And I thought:History is like a horror story. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

3 " I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

4 " Ik ben voor geen enkele vorm van schoonheid immuun. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

5 " Yo no puedo olvidar nada. Dicen que ]ése es mi problema. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

6 " Je loopt altijd gevaar.
Dat is de zuivere waarheid.
Je loopt altijd gevaar en bent een speelbal van het lot, zelfs op de meest onwaarschijnlijke plaatsen. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

7 " ...y cuando una está feliz o presiente que la felicidad está cerca, pues se mira en los espejos sin ninguna reserva, es más, cuando una está feliz o se siente predestinada a la experiencia de la felicidad, tiene a bajar las defensas y a aceptar los espejos "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

8 " Hoe dan ook, er gebeurt iets met de tijd.
Ik weet dat er iets met de tijd gebeurt en niet met de ruimte. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

9 " En ik dacht: zo is de geschiedenis, een kort gruwelverhaal. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

10 " Yo era la que veía el pasado y las que ven el pasado nunca pagan. También veía el futuro y ésas sí que pagan un precio elevado, en ocasiones el precio es la vida o la cordura. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

11 " Y lo que los poetas jóvenes o la nueva generación pretendía era mover el piso y llegado el momento destruir esas estatuas, salvo la de Pacheco, el único que parecía escribir de verdad, el único que no parecía un funcionario. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

12 " I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

13 " You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

14 " From time to time I feel as though my books and figurines were with me still. But how could they be? Are they somehow floating around me or over my head? Have the figurines and books that I lost over the years dissolved into the air of Mexico City? Have they become the ash that blows through the city from north to south and from east to west? Perhaps. The dark night of the soul advances through the streets of Mexico City sweeping all before it. And now it is rare to hear singing, where once everything was a song. The dust cloud reduces everything to dust. First the poets, then love, then, when it seems to be sated and about to disperse, the cloud returns to hang high over your city or your mind, with a mysterious air that means it has no intention of moving. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

15 " ¿Y qué amor puede sostenerse mucho tiempo si a una no la besan en la boca? "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

16 " Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better. But better can sometimes mean worse, if you’re a woman, "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

17 " Still I kept walking. I walked and walked. And from time to time I stopped and said to myself: Wake up, Auxilio. Nobody can endure this. And yet I knew I could endure it. So I baptized my right leg Willpower and my left leg Necessity. And I endured. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

18 " ... Auxilio, they'd say, that's enough bustling around, Auxilio, leave those papers alone, woman, dust and literature have always gone together. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

19 " ...my spirit had become so fragile, I was so devoid of the curiosity that, in former times, had been one of my most salient traits. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet

20 " Yo creo, y permítaseme este inciso, que
la vida está cargada de cosas enigmáticas, pequeños acontecimientos que sólo están
esperando el contacto epidérmico, nuestra mirada, para desencadenarse en una serie de
hechos causales que luego, vistos a través del prisma del tiempo, no pueden sino
producirnos asombro o espanto. "

― Roberto Bolaño , Amulet