Conversations Quotes

“Everything is made of words, and the words had done their job. I could even say they had done it well. They had risen in a confusing swarm and spun around in spirals, ever higher, colliding and separating, golden insects, messengers of friendship and knowledge, higher, higher, into that region of the sky where the day turns into night and reality into dreams, regal words on their nuptial flight, always higher, until their marriage is finally consummated at the summit of the world.”
― César Aira, The Conversations

“So familiar that it didn't even register in the conversation; but it did reappear when I laid it out on the table of my dreams.”
― César Aira, Conversations

“And the more details I added in order to round out the figure of the "actor," the more of a "character" he became.”
― César Aira, Conversations