Believe Quote by Julio Cortazar

“Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.”

Julio Cortazar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Kada otvorim vrata i pojavim se na stepeništu, znaću da dole počinje ulica. Ali ne kalup, unapred prihvaćen, niti dobro poznate kuće, ni onaj hotel preko puta, nego ulica, gaj pun života, gde svaki trenutak može pasti na mene u obliku cveta magnolije, i gde će se lica rađati pod mojim pogledom, kada učinim sledeći korak, kada laktovima i trepavicama…

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“As soon as he began to amalate the noeme, the clemise began to smother her and they fell into hydromuries, into savage ambonies, into exasperating sustales. Each time that he tried to relamate the hairincops, he became entangled in a whining grimate and had to face up to envulsioning the novalisk, feeling how little by little the arnees would spejune,…

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The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film.…

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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…

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I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally…

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“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 people make love all the time and then fry some eggs and put on Vivaldi records, light cigarettes... and outside there are all sorts of things, the windows open onto the air and it all begins…

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