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One Quotes by Julio Cortazar
- Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
- When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
- The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
- The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum…
- We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the…
- I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not…
- Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
- Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk…
- You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're…
- Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.
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