Bioy Quotes

#1. Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#3. jimi & and me

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#5. Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.

Bill Vaughan

#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. The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

Julian Simon

#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 existenceof a ghost).

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#10. Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#11. 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

#12. 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. I'm not really an actress.

Khloe Kardashian

#14. I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.

Jack Layton

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#17. The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever more I decide to love.

Michael Sweeney

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#20. 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

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#22. 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

#23. So pervasively has Enlightenment culture's anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.

Craig S. Keener

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares