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“The centre of the village is a void elegantly furnished with a bloody suction.”
― César Aira, Ghosts

“The same thing happens in literature: in the composition of some works, the author becomes a whole society, by means of a kind of symbolic condensation, writing with the real or virtual collaboration of all the culture's specialists, while others works are made by an individual, working alone like the nomadic woman, in which case society is signified by the arrangement of the writer's books in relation to the books of others, their periodic appearance, and so on.”
― César Aira, Ghosts

“Since Patri was given to building castles in the air, certain chimerical spectacles could lead her to the utterly misguided belief that reality is everywhere.”
― César Aira, Ghosts

“His romance and charm lay in how well he did with what might have been and how gracefully he accepted what was.”
― Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So