We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
Meaning of the quote
Just like a book has a beginning and an end, our lives also have a beginning and an end. But even though a book finishes, we keep reading other books. Similarly, even though we know we will eventually die, we keep on living our lives. We never stop reading or living, even though everything comes to an end.
About Roberto Bolano
Roberto Bolano Avaloswas a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolano won the Romulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a “work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages”.
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