“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“All I have to do is to look at you to know that with you, I am going to soak my soul” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things are worth while but it hurts” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“It’s impossible to want what I want and in the shape I want it, and share life with others besides. I had… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“I envy Johnny and at the same time I get sore as hell watching him destroy himself, misusing his gifts, and the… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“También hay ríos metafísicos, Horacio. Vos te vas a tirar a uno de esos ríos.” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share
“Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share
“Me daba asco pensar así, una vez más estar pensando todo lo que a los otros les bastaba sentir.” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share
“Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share
“Kada otvorim vrata i pojavim se na stepeništu, znaću da dole počinje ulica. Ali ne kalup, unapred prihvaćen, niti dobro poznate kuće, ni onaj… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share
“As soon as he began to amalate the noeme, the clemise began to smother her and they fell into hydromuries, into savage ambonies, into… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share
What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share
I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share
“That's how it is, Rocamadour: in Paris we're like fungus, we grow on the railings of staircases, in dark rooms with greasy smells, where… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share
