Julio Cortazar Quotes
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Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that…
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Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
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The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
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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 can…
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There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des…
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Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
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When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
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Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
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The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
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I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
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The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
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[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.
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After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for…
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She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite,…
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I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer…
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In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
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Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
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