The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”
“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.”
“The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.”
“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).”
“I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.”
“His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.”
“...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.”
“Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.”
“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.”
“The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.”
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