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.”

“Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.”

“Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.”

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

“you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts”

“As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.”

“Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.”

“As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”

“Explanation is a well-dressed error.”

“Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.”