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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
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.
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.
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
