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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.
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.
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
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.
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.
