Julio Cortazar Messages

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

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.

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

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

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

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?

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.