"Only by living absurdly is it possible to……" — Julio Cortazar
"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."
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48 Quotes by Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar has 48 quotes on this site.
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Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every…
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The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes…
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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…
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There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the…
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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…
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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…
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
— Lord Byron
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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