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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
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.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
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.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
