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More Quotes by Julio Cortázar
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
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.
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.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
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.
