Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes
1914–1999 Argentina
Also known as: Adolfo Bioy Cazares
Random Adolfo Bioy Casares quote
17 quotes
She must have received some great news, because yesterday her hair was white and today it is completely blond.
There comes a moment in your life when, no matter what you do, you bore everybody else. There is only one way to get back the lost prestige. Dying.
Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.
Even the wolf has its moments of weakness, in which it sides with the lamb and thinks: I hope it runs away.
Machines are always on the verge of extinction.
Women are the tax we pay for pleasure.
Women are the tax we pay on pleasure.
Una muñeca rusa (1991)
Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.
I have not perceived any increased sympathy for other women in feminists."
A doctor is the conjunction of a white coat, a stethoscope, and a jargon.
The world attributes its misfortunes to the schemes and plottings of the very evil and powerful. I think stupidity is underestimated.
Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie.
Sometimes I think Johnson´s Lives of the English Poets is all I need to be happy.
Even more so than when we are awake, we are ourselves when we are asleep. We play all the parts.
Is there any difference between our desires becoming reality, and our desiring what is already real? What matters is that our will and reality agree with one another.
Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.
He thought he understood for the first time why some said life is a dream: If one lives long enough, facts about your life, just like your dreams, become impossible to communicate, because nobody cares about them.