Adolfo Bioy Casares Quote

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).


The Invention of Morel (1940), translated by Ruth L. C. Simms


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...

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...

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...

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...