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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
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.
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
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.
