The Invention of Morel Quotes

“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“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.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“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.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“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).”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Tal vez toda esa higiene de no esperar sea un poco ridícula. No esperar de la vida, para no arriesgarla; darse por muerto, para no morir.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“No fue como si no me hubiera oído, como si no me hubiera visto; fue como si los oídos que tenía no sirvieran para oír, como si los ojos no sirvieran para ver.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, La Invención de Morel

“...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“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, The Invention of Morel

“When all the senses are synchronized, the soul emerges.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“We can always find a cause for suspicion if we look for it.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Nosotros viviremos en esa fotografía, siempre”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Considero que este pensamiento es un vicio: lo escribo para fijarle límites, para ver que no tiene encanto, para dejarlo.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Lloré durante el sueño y desperté con una inconsolable desesperanza porque Faustine no estaba y con llorado consuelo porque nos habíamos querido sin disimulo.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Es ya costumbre de mis teorías más lúcidas deshacerse al día siguiente, quedar como pruebas de una combinación asombrosa de ineptitud y entusiasmo (o desesperación). Tal vez mi idea, una vez escrita, pierda la fuerza.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Creio que perdemos a imortalidade porque a resistência à morte não evoluiu; seus aperfeiçoamentos insistem na ideia primitiva, rudimentar, de manter vivo todo o corpo. Só se deveria procurar conservar o que interessa para a consciência.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, La invención de Morel

“I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Non debbo sperare niente. Scrivo questa frase e mi viene un'idea che è una speranza.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Sublime, close at hand but mysterious
With the living silence of the rose.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Non sperare dalla vita, per non rischiarla; considerarsi morto, per non morire.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, La Invención de Morel

“Todo lo que he escrito sobre mi destino —con esperanzas o con temor, en broma o en serio— me mortifica.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Al hombre que, basándose en este informe, invente una máquina capaz de reunir las presencias disgregadas, haré una súplica: Búsquenos a Faustine y a mí, hágame entrar en el cielo de la conciencia de Faustine. Será un acto piadoso.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“¿Cómo seguiré en la tortura de vivir con Faustine y de tenerla tan lejos?”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“La razón de esta necesidad de escribir ha de estar en los nervios. El pretexto es que ahora mis actos me llevan a uno de mis tres porvenires: la compañía de la mujer, la soledad (o sea la muerte en que pasé los últimos años, imposible después de haber contemplado a la mujer), la horrorosa justicia. ¿A cual? Saberlo con tiempo es difícil. Sin embargo, la redacción y la lectura de estas memorias pueden ayudarme a esa previsión tan útil; quizá también me permitan cooperar en la producción del futuro conveniente.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel