Casares 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. Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#4. [The clerk] held in front of him a scroll with a red wax seal affixed, the kind of thing believed to make a document official - or at least expensive and difficult to understand, which, in fact, amounts to the same thing.

Terry Pratchett

#5. If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

Warren Buffett

#6. I want to set the record straight."
"The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read 1984? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your bare fanny for nothing.

David Eddings

#7. I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

China Machado

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#11. 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

#12. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The

Douglas Adams

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#14. We live and breathe words.

Cassandra Clare

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#17. I've never played a character that would sing.

Katey Sagal

#18. jimi & and me

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#19. In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.

Wences Casares

#20. You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.

Bob Dylan

#21. Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.

Wences Casares

#22. What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I'm not sure of it.

Samuel Beckett

#23. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.

Alexandra Katehakis

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#26. There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified.

Marion G. Romney

#27. Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.

Wences Casares

#28. ... 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

#29. 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

#30. My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Nina Simone

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#32. 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

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#34. A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

Erica Jong

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares