Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes

#1. ...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

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#2. People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.

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#3. 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.

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#4. I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

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#5. The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.

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#6. Under the bludgeonings of fate
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

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

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

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#9. ... 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.

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#10. The influence of the future on the past, said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

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#11. I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.

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#14. 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 existenceof a ghost).

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

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

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#17. The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

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#18. jimi & and me

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