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

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

Six months ago. Six, sax, sex. — Julio Cortazar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now I am an axolotl. — Julio Cortazar

In quoting others, we cite ourselves. — Julio Cortazar

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

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

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

Explanation is a well-dressed error. — Julio Cortazar

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

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

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

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

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

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar