Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes

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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
There comes a moment in your life when, no matter what you do, you bore everybody else. There is only one way to get back the lost prestige. Dying.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Is there any difference between our desires becoming reality, and our desiring what is already real? What matters is that our will and reality agree with one another.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Even the wolf has its moments of weakness, in which it sides with the lamb and thinks: I hope it runs away.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
I have not perceived any increased sympathy for other women in feminists.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
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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He thought he understood for the first time why some said life is a dream: If one lives long enough, facts about your life, just like your dreams, become impossible to communicate, because nobody cares about them.

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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).

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Women are the tax we pay on pleasure.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
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
Revolution: Political movement which gets many people's hopes up, let's even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
A doctor is the conjunction of a white coat, a stethoscope, and a jargon.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
She must have received some great news, because yesterday her hair was white and today it is completely blond.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Even more so than when we are awake, we are ourselves when we are asleep. We play all the parts.

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Sometimes I think Johnson's Lives of the English Poets is all I need to be happy.

Adolfo Bioy Casares
The world attributes its misfortunes to the schemes and plottings of the very evil and powerful. I think stupidity is underestimated.

Adolfo Bioy Casares