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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
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.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
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.
