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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.


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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.



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



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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.



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.



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

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



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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.



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.





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