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His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.Adolfo Bioy Casares
2
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
3
I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.Adolfo Bioy Casares
4
The influence of the future on the past, " said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.Adolfo Bioy Casares
5
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
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...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.Adolfo Bioy Casares
7
I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.Adolfo Bioy Casares