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Adolfo Bioy Casares QUOTES

Adolfo Bioy Casares QUOTES

1 " His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

2 " He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone.
Human beings themselves, after death, become figures in a dream to the survivors , they fade away and are forgotten, like dreams that were once convincing, but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents who find in their children a receptive audience, with the result that in the child's credulous imagination they find a last semblance of life, which quickly dims out as if they had never existed. ... "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , Diary of the War of the Pig

3 " I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

4 " I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

5 " ...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

6 " I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

7 " Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , Asleep in the Sun

8 " The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

9 " And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

10 " The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

11 " To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existence of a ghost). "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

12 " No espero nada. Esto no es horrible. Después de resolverlo, he ganado tranquilidad. Pero esa mujer me ha dado una esperanza. Debo temer las esperanzas. Tal vez toda esa higiene de no esperar sea un poco ridícula. No esperar de la vida, para no arriesgarla; darse por muerto, para no morir. Ya no estoy muerto: estoy enamorado. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín

13 " No fue como si no me hubiera oído, como si no me hubiera visto; fue como si los oídos que tenía no sirvieran para oír, como si los ojos no sirvieran para ver. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

14 " People love nobody as much as they do their hatred. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , Asleep in the Sun

15 " Tal vez toda esa higiene de no esperar sea un poco ridícula. No esperar de la vida, para no arriesgarla; darse por muerto, para no morir. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

16 " Spontaneity is the mother of crudity. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel

17 " Creo que perdemos la inmortalidad porque la resistencia a la muerte no ha evolucionado; sus perfeccionamientos insisten en la primera idea, rudimentaria: retener vivo todo el cuerpo. Sólo habría que buscar la conservación de lo que interesa a la conciencia. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín

18 " Uno se acerca a otra persona para divertirse o para quererla; no hay nada de malo en eso. De pronto uno, para no hacer sufrir, oculta algo. El otro descubre que le han ocultado algo, pero no sabe que. Trata de averiguar, acepta las explicaciones, disimula que no las cree del todo. Asi empieza el desastre. Quisiera que nunca nos hicieramos mal. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Dream of Heroes

19 " En los momentos más terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atención a trivialidades. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , En memoria de Paulina

20 " The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection. "

― Adolfo Bioy Casares , The Invention of Morel