Diario de la guerra del cerdo Quotes

“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, Diary of the War of the Pig

“Creyó por primera vez entender por qué se decía que la vida es sueño: si uno vive bastante, los hechos de su vida, como los de un sueño, su vuelven incomunicables porque a nadie interesan.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, Diary of the War of the Pig

“Under the bludgeonings of fate
My head is bloody, but unbowed.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, Diario de la guerra del cerdo

“Hoy todo el mundo es íntimo; amigo, nadie.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, Diary of the War of the Pig

“People are cagey, they don't like to get involved. And they always side with the one who is trying to get away.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, Diary of the War of the Pig

“En la vejez todo es triste y ridículo: hasta la muerte.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, Diary of the War of the Pig

“El vicio de los recuerdos, como otros vicios, primero entretiene pero a la larga lesiona y perjudica”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, Diary of the War of the Pig

“Extreme ugliness can act as a powerful erotic stimulus: love, after all, if not far removed from madness.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, Diary of the War of the Pig