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Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us."

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "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."

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.




Julio Cortazar Quotes: "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."

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.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons."

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.




Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that."

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."

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



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout."

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.




Julio Cortazar Quotes: "A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters"

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "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."

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.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut."

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes."

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "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."

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.




Julio Cortazar Quotes: "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."

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.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life."

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



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself."

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature."

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others."

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "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?"

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?



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?"

Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does"

I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting."

[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "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?"

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?



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into."

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space."

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.



Julio Cortazar Quotes: "Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth."

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