More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
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.
I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
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.
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.
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.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
