Top 32 Adolfo Casares Quotes
#1. The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#3. A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#4. Rose Marie, wrapped in a wool shawl, was sitting on a lounge chair, smoking a cigarette; nicotine gum, she said, was for pussies. She was a short woman, going to weight, with an ever-changing hair color.
John Sandford
#6. I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#7. His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#8. 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).
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#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
#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.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#13. Certainty is the place where questions go to die.
Dee Hock
#14. The influence of the future on the past, said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#15. ... 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.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#16. It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
Aimee Mullins
#18. Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#19. Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.
Barbara Marciniak
#21. 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.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#22. I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#24. I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.
Hannibal Buress
#25. 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
#26. In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.
Darren Johnson
#27. Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.
Friedrich Frobel
#28. With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.
Stephen Kinzer
#29. No one told me that the love I'd feel for my child would be so pervasive and consuming.
Amy Hatvany
#31. Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
Vic Snyder
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