Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Invention of Morel

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
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).

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.