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The Absent City QUOTES

The Absent City QUOTES

1 " A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love "

― Ricardo Piglia , The Absent City

2 " —No me interesa curarme, sólo quiero cambiar las alucinaciones. ¿Se "

― Ricardo Piglia , The Absent City

3 " A story is nothing more than a reproduction of the order of the world on a purely verbal scale. A replica of life, if life consisted of words. But life does not consist just of words. Unfortunately, it is also made up of bodies or, in other words, of disease, pain and death. "

― Ricardo Piglia , The Absent City

4 " There is never a first time in memory, it is only in life that the future is uncertain, in memory the pain always returns in precisely the same manner, rushing to the present, you have to avoid certain places as you go over the past with the eye of the camera, whoever looks at himself on such s a screen loses all hope. "

― Ricardo Piglia , The Absent City

5 " There is never a first time in memory, it is only in life that the future is uncertain, in memory the pain always returns in precisely the same manner, rushing to the present, you have to avoid certain places as you go over the past with the eye of the camera, whoever looks at himself on such a screen loses all hope. "

― Ricardo Piglia , The Absent City