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 CasaresLife has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
Adolfo Bioy Casares