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Julio Cortazar quotes: On top of physical pain like a metaphysical pinprick, writing abounds.

On top of physical pain like a metaphysical pinprick, writing abounds.

Julio Cortazar quotes: What we call absurd is our ignorance. The Winners, 1960

What we call absurd is our ignorance. The Winners, 1960

Julio Cortazar quotes: Six months ago. Six, sax, sex.

Six months ago. Six, sax, sex.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Julio Cortazar quotes: A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Julio Cortazar quotes: After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

Julio Cortazar quotes: The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

Julio Cortazar quotes: I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

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

Julio Cortazar quotes: Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

Julio Cortazar quotes: I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

Julio Cortazar quotes: I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Julio Cortazar quotes: Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune.

Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

Julio Cortazar quotes: The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive.

Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive.

Julio Cortazar quotes: 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?

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?

Julio Cortazar quotes: All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

Julio Cortazar quotes: The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Why don't we go out instead of talking about people? We seem to be ghosts talking about other ghosts. It's unhealthy." "Yes,

Why don't we go out instead of talking about people? We seem to be ghosts talking about other ghosts. It's unhealthy." "Yes,

Julio Cortazar quotes: (memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

Julio Cortazar quotes: And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

Julio Cortazar quotes: If I were a moviemaker I'd set about hunting sunsets.

If I were a moviemaker I'd set about hunting sunsets.

Julio Cortazar quotes: We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Julio Cortazar quotes: And jazz is like a bird who migrates or emigrates or immigrates or transmigrates, roadblock jumper, smuggler, something that runs and mixes in

And jazz is like a bird who migrates or emigrates or immigrates or transmigrates, roadblock jumper, smuggler, something that runs and mixes in

Julio Cortazar quotes: We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.

We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.

Julio Cortazar quotes: I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

Julio Cortazar quotes: Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Julio Cortazar quotes: I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day ...

I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day ...

Julio Cortazar quotes: I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in alldirections ...

I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all
directions ...

Julio Cortazar quotes: Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Julio Cortazar quotes: [Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Being alive always seems to be the price of something.

Being alive always seems to be the price of something.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Now I am an axolotl.

Now I am an axolotl.

Julio Cortazar quotes: In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Julio Cortazar quotes: When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

Julio Cortazar quotes: You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts

You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things are
worth while but it hurts

Julio Cortazar quotes: All I have to do is to look at you to know that with you, I am going to soak my soul

All I have to do is to look at you to know that with you, I am going to soak my soul

Julio Cortazar quotes: Explanation is a well-dressed error.

Explanation is a well-dressed error.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

Julio Cortazar quotes: The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

Julio Cortazar quotes: And there's blues in my bed, 'cause l'm sleepin' by myself.

And there's blues in my bed, 'cause l'm sleepin' by myself.

Julio Cortazar quotes: 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.

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.

Julio Cortazar quotes: Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.