Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes

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

~ Adolfo Bioy Casares

He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone.Human beings themselves, after death, become figures in a dream to the survivors , they fade away and are forgotten, like dreams that were once convincing, but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents who find in their children a receptive audience, with the result that in the child's credulous imagination they find a last semblance of life, which quickly dims out as if they had never existed. ...

~ Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

~ 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.

~ Adolfo Bioy Casares

I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre.

~ Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

~ Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

~ Adolfo Bioy Casares