Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.”
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares

#Running #Unrequited Love #Long
“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

#Writing #Three #Diaries
“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

#Love Is #Perception #Shadow
“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares

#Sea #Endless
“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

#Being In Love #Islands #Want
“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

#Believe #Ideas #Alive
“Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.”
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares

#Want #Ghost #Existence
“Revolution: Political movement which gets many peopleÂ´s hopes up, letÂ´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.”
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares

#People #Political #Movement

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