Julio Cortazar
Writer
1914-08-26
Quotes by Julio Cortazar
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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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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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The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
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[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.
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The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
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After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
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