roberto bolaño – satomipoema

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.

– Roberto Bolaño – 2666

Ph : Henri Cartier-Bresson

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

– Roberto Bolaño – 2666

Ph : Yiorgos Mavropoulos

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

– Roberto Bolaño – 2666

Ph : Ruslan Lobanov

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

– Roberto Bolaño – 2666

Ph : Bruno Dayan

If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.

– Roberto Bolaño – The Insufferable Gaucho

Ph : Settimio Benedusi

… struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.
– Roberto Bolaño – 2666
Ph : Eric Kellerman

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
– Roberto Bolaño – 2666
Ph : Eric Kellerman

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
– Roberto Bolaño – 2666

History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in monstrousness.
– Roberto Bolaño – 2666
Ph : Ed Ross