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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
I didn't just want to do something that looks good, but get a product that lasts too.
— Esteban Cortazar
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
— Julio Cortazar
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
— 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
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
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
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
Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.
— Julio Cortazar
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
— 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
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
If I were a moviemaker I'd set about hunting sunsets.
— Julio Cortazar
And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?
— Julio Cortazar
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.— Julio Cortazar
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
— Julio Cortazar
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
— 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 alldirections ... — 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
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[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
Now I am an axolotl.
— Julio Cortazar
We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.
— Julio Cortazar
You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth 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
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