Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes

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 existenceof a ghost).

Adolfo Bioy Casares

• Persons
• Ghost
• Nightmare
• Islands
• Unbearable

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• 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 existenceof a ghost).

  

  Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Persons
  • Ghost
  • Nightmare