Adolfo Bioy Casares quotes

Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine writer, acclaimed for his imaginative works of science fiction and fantasy. Famous for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges, his stories often explored the boundaries between reality and fiction. He greatly influenced Latin American literature and remains celebrated for novels like "The Invention of Morel." Here are 16 of his quotes:

Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Machines are always on the verge of extinction.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

The world attributes its misfortunes to the schemes and plottings of the very evil and powerful. I think stupidity is underestimated.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Even more so than when we are awake, we are ourselves when we are asleep. We play all the parts.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

She must have received some great news, because yesterday her hair was white and today it is completely blond.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

A doctor is the conjunction of a white coat, a stethoscope, and a jargon.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Women are the tax we pay on pleasure.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

I have not perceived any increased sympathy for other women in feminists."

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.

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.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.

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.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Sometimes I think Johnson´s Lives of the English Poets is all I need to be happy.

Adolfo Bioy Casares