Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESPerhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESNot only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESThe body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESMakes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESLife has now taught me that love for things,
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESAnd the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures…
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESBut still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESTo 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 CASARESRevolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESLove is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESTo be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESWhich one will it be? Time alone will tell.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESI believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death;
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESPeople love nobody as much as they do their hatred.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESLike all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARESThe sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES