Quotes by : César Aira

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting.

He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s....

Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In....

I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies.....

A memory is a luminous miniature, like the hologram of the princess, in that movie, that the faithful....

Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.

The voice, for its part, has the peculiarity that when released it carries the weight of the body from....

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs.......

A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a....