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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
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.
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.
