Julio Cortázar

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

— Julio Cortázar

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

— Julio Cortázar

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

— Julio Cortázar

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

— Julio Cortázar

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

— Julio Cortázar

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like…

— Julio Cortazar

“Kada otvorim vrata i pojavim se na stepeništu, znaću da dole počinje ulica. Ali ne kalup, unapred prihvaćen, niti dobro poznate kuće,…

— Julio Cortazar

“As soon as he began to amalate the noeme, the clemise began to smother her and they fell into hydromuries, into savage…

— Julio Cortázar

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of…

— 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…

— 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

“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

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

— Julio Cortázar

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss…

— Julio Cortazar

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

— Julio Cortázar

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

— Julio Cortázar

“A hand of smoke took his hand, started him downward, if it was downward, showed him a centre, if it was a…

— Julio Cortázar

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

— Julio Cortazar

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

— Julio Cortázar

Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

— 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

“¿Qué clase de paseo va a ser éste si me basta mirarte para saber que con vos me voy a empapar el…

— Julio Cortázar

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself…

— Julio Cortazar

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

“me atormenta tu amor que no me sirve de puente porque un puente no se sostiene de un solo lado...”

— Julio Cortázar