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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
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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
I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
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Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
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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.
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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 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
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
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Why don't we go out instead of talking about people? We seem to be ghosts talking about other ghosts. It's unhealthy." "Yes,
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(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
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.
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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 ...
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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
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
— 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.
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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.
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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