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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
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.
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
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.
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.
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
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.
