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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.


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I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.



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.



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.



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.



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.



Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.



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.



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

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



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



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.





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If we cannot do what we will we must will what we can.

If we cannot do what we will we must will what we can.



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I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.

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Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.

Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.



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Security is the denial of life



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I've really enjoyed my three years at 'Hollyoaks.' I worked with the most amazing people.



The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.



I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.




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