More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
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.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. 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. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a 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.
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.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
