Julio Cortázar

“animula vagula blandula.”

— Julio Cortázar

“il faut tenter de vivre.”

— Julio Cortázar

“Sólo la verdad es revolucionaria”

— Julio Cortázar

“If I were a moviemaker I'd set about hunting sunsets.”

— Julio Cortázar

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

— Julio Cortazar

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

— Julio Cortazar

“No era en la cabeza donde tenia el centro”

— Julio Cortázar

“(...) me custava muito menos pensar do que ser.”

— Julio Cortazar

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

— Julio Cortazar

“Si te caes te levanto y sino me acuesto contigo”

— Julio Cortázar

“Me basta mirarte para saber que con vos me voy a empapar el alma.”

— Julio Cortázar

“Svaki nered se opravdava ako teži da izađe iz sebe, možda se kroz ludilo može dospjeti do razuma koji neće biti onaj…

— Julio Cortazar

“Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto.”

— Julio Cortázar

“A Lucas le parece que casi todo el mundo comparte la ignorancia de Hyde, lo que ayuda a la ciudad del hombre…

— Julio Cortázar

“Deosebirea dintre mine si Manu e ca suntem aproape la fel. In astfel de cazuri, diferenta e un fel de cataclism iminent.”

— Julio Cortázar

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

— Julio Cortazar

[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

— Julio Cortazar

“Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end…

— Julio Cortázar

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

— Julio Cortazar

“All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of…

— Julio Cortázar

“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

“Esto del tiempo es complicado, me agarra por todos lados. Me empiezo a dar cuenta poco a poco de que el tiempo…

— Julio Cortázar

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be…

— Julio Cortazar

I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally,…

— Julio Cortazar

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to…

— Julio Cortazar

Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun…

— Julio Cortazar

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

I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I…

— Julio Cortazar

“...Amor mío, no te quiero por vos ni por mí ni por los dos juntos, no te quiero porque la sangre me…

— Julio Cortázar

“I envy Johnny and at the same time I get sore as hell watching him destroy himself, misusing his gifts, and the…

— Julio Cortázar

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

“Amor mío, no te quiero por vos ni por mí ni por los dos juntos, no te quiero porque la sangre me…

— Julio Cortázar

“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves…

— Julio Cortázar

“That's how it is, Rocamadour: in Paris we're like fungus, we grow on the railings of staircases, in dark rooms with greasy…

— Julio Cortázar

“-En el pan es de día -murmura Johnny, tapándose la cara-. Y yo me atrevo a tocarlo, a cortarlo en dos, a…

— Julio Cortázar

“Umblam fara sa ne cautam, dar stiind ca umblam ca sa ne gasim.”

— Julio Cortázar

“Being alive always seems to be the price of something.”

— Julio Cortázar

“Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny.”

— Julio Cortázar

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

— Julio Cortazar

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

— Julio Cortazar