Julio Cortazar Quotes

• We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

  Julio Cortazar

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• Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love,Love will make us

  Julio Cortazar

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  Tags in Romance, Relationships

• The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

  Julio Cortazar

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  Tags in Believe

• Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

  Julio Cortazar

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  Tags in People, Never

• Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

  Julio Cortazar

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  Tags in Poetry

• All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

  Julio Cortazar

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  Tags in Writing

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Julio Cortazar

• 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

• And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

  Julio Cortazar

Julio Cortazar (12)

Birth:	26th August, 1914
Death:	12th February, 1984
Nationality:	Argentinean
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Translator, Writer

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