"What good is a writer if he can't……" — Julio Cortazar
"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 in that destruction?"
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Julio Cortazar
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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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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…
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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
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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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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
— Joseph Addison
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
— Max Beerbohm
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget…
— Aneurin Bevan
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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