“ 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
“ Para leer en forma interrogativaHas vistoverdaderamente has vistola nieve los astros los pasos afelpados de la brisaHas tocadode verdad has tocadoel plato el pan la cara de esa mujer que tanto amasHas… Julio Cortazar
“ The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surpri… Julio Cortazar
“ An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into… Julio Cortazar
“ Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth. Julio Cortazar
“ 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. Julio Cortazar
“ Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by th… Julio Cortazar
“ You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts Julio Cortazar
“ The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means. Julio Cortazar
“ Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists. Julio Cortazar
“ 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 th… Julio Cortazar
“ The archive of supposed photocopies (I.E. memory) actually offers up strange creatures; the green paradise of childhood loves that Baudelaire recalled is for many a future in reverse, an obverse of ho… Julio Cortazar
“ Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assist… Julio Cortazar
“ (memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. Julio Cortazar
“ 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. Julio Cortazar
“ La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which… Julio Cortazar
“ All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois stan… Julio Cortazar
“ I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, an… Julio Cortazar
