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> [“During his reading hours, which were between one and five o'clock in the morning, but not every morning, he had come to the disconcerting conclusion that whistling was not an important theme in literature.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/during-his-reading-hours-which-were-between-one-and-five-o-clock-in/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

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## More by Julio Cortázar

> [“Umblam fara sa ne cautam, dar stiind ca umblam ca sa ne gasim.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/umblam-fara-sa-ne-cautam-dar-stiind-ca-umblam-ca-sa-ne-gasim/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“También hay ríos metafísicos, Horacio. Vos te vas a tirar a uno de esos ríos.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/tambi-n-hay-r-os-metaf-sicos-horacio-vos-te-vas-a-tirar-a-uno-de-esos/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/thus-they-went-along-punch-and-judy-attracting-each-other-and/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“Me daba asco pensar así, una vez más estar pensando todo lo que a los otros les bastaba sentir.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/me-daba-asco-pensar-as-una-vez-m-s-estar-pensando-todo-lo-que-a-los/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/y-all-en-el-fondo-est-la-muerte-si-no-corremos-y-llegamos-antes-y/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/but-what-is-memory-if-not-the-language-of-feeling-a-dictionary-of/)

[Julio Cortazar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“Kada otvorim vrata i pojavim se na stepeništu, znaću da dole počinje ulica. Ali ne kalup, unapred prihvaćen, niti dobro poznate kuće, ni onaj…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/kada-otvorim-vrata-i-pojavim-se-na-stepeni-tu-zna-u-da-dole-po-inje/)

[Julio Cortazar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“As soon as he began to amalate the noeme, the clemise began to smother her and they fell into hydromuries, into savage ambonies, into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/as-soon-as-he-began-to-amalate-the-noeme-the-clemise-began-to-smother/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [ The best literature is always a take \[in the musical sense\]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/the-best-literature-is-always-a-take-in-the-musical-sense-there-is-an/)

[Julio Cortazar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/what-good-is-a-writer-if-he-can-t-destroy-literature-and-us-what-good/)

[Julio Cortazar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/i-raised-the-camera-pretended-to-study-a-focus-which-did-not-include/)

[Julio Cortazar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/that-s-how-it-is-rocamadour-in-paris-we-re-like-fungus-we-grow-on-the/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“No puede ser que estemos aquí para no poder ser.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/no-puede-ser-que-estemos-aqu-para-no-poder-ser/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/the-more-a-book-is-like-an-opium-pipe-the-more-the-chinaman-reader-is/)

[Julio Cortazar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

> [“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-cort-zar/in-the-twentieth-century-nothing-can-better-cure-the-anthropocentrism/)

[Julio Cortázar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-cort-zar/)

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