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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 " I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness. "
3 " 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. "
4 " ...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead. "
5 " I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police. "
6 " The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat. "
7 " 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. "
8 " 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. "
9 " 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). "
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " Spontaneity is the mother of crudity. "
13 " The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection. "
14 " ... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life. "
15 " The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly. "
16 " Creio que perdemos a imortalidade porque a resistência à morte não evoluiu; seus aperfeiçoamentos insistem na ideia primitiva, rudimentar, de manter vivo todo o corpo. Só se deveria procurar conservar o que interessa para a consciência. "
17 " Lloré durante el sueño y desperté con una inconsolable desesperanza porque Faustine no estaba y con llorado consuelo porque nos habíamos querido sin disimulo. "
18 " Non debbo sperare niente. Scrivo questa frase e mi viene un'idea che è una speranza. "
19 " Nosotros viviremos en esa fotografía, siempre "
20 " Non sperare dalla vita, per non rischiarla; considerarsi morto, per non morire. "
