More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
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.
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.
I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
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.
