Julio Cortázar Short Quotes

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Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

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Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

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Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.

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We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.

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Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

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What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

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Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

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I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

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And after doing all they do they rise from their bed, they bathe, powder and perfume their persons, they dress, and gradually return to being what they are not.

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Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

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Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.

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It had been some time since Gregorovius had given up the illusion of understanding things, but at any rate, he still wanted misunderstanding to have some sort of order, some reason about them.

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