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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
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.
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?
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.
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
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.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
