il faut tenter de vivre.

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

— Julio Cortázar

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

“No puede ser que estemos aquí para no poder ser.”

— 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 smells, where…

— Julio Cortázar

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.”

— Julio Cortázar

“Me daba asco pensar así, una vez más estar pensando todo lo que a los otros les bastaba sentir.”

— Julio Cortázar

“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

“También hay ríos metafísicos, Horacio. Vos te vas a tirar a uno de esos ríos.”

— Julio Cortázar

“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