Adolfo Bioy Casares quotes

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. (Adolfo Bioy Casares)
Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Machines are always on the verge of extinction. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
The world attributes its misfortunes to the schemes and plottings of the very evil and powerful. I think stupidity is underestimated. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Even more so than when we are awake, we are ourselves when we are asleep. We play all the parts. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
She must have received some great news, because yesterday her hair was white and today it is completely blond. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
A doctor is the conjunction of a white coat, a stethoscope, and a jargon. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Women are the tax we pay on pleasure. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
I have not perceived any increased sympathy for other women in feminists." View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Even the wolf has its moments of weakness, in which it sides with the lamb and thinks: I hope it runs away. (Adolfo Bioy Casares)
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. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Sometimes I think Johnson´s Lives of the English Poets is all I need to be happy. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares