But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.
Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera. - Julio Cortazar
Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.
- Julio Cortazar
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. - Julio Cortazar
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us. - Julio Cortazar
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.
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 in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
In quoting others, we cite ourselves. - Julio Cortazar
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in… - Julio Cortazar
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in…
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. - Julio Cortazar
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate. - Julio Cortazar
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from … - Julio Cortazar
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from …
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