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Julio Cortazar has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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