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Julio Cortazar Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“If you fall, I’ll pick you up, if not, I will lay down with you.”
— Julio Cortazar, via Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love
“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
— Julio Cortazar, via Amazon
Tagged: Making Love
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
— Julio Cortazar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Tagged: Distraction, Distracted, Concentration, Creativity, Energy, Thinking, working on something, Writing, Ideas, opportunities
“I always end up talking about the center without the slightest guarantee that I know what I’m saying, and I slip into the trap of geometry, that method we Occidentals use to try to regulate our lives: axis, center, raison d'être, Omphalos, nostalgic Indo-European names. Even this existence I sometimes try to describe, this Paris where I move about like a dry leaf, would not be visible if behind it there did not beat an anxiety for an axis, a coming together with the center shaft. All these words, all these terms for the same disorder. Sometimes I am convinced that triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness or a dog. Holding La Maga, that materialized nebula, I begin to think that it makes just as much sense to model a doll out of crumbled bread as to write the novel I will never write or to give my life in the defense of ideas that could redeem whole peoples.”
— Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch
Tagged: latin american literature
“We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.”
— Julio Cortazar, Blow-Up: And Other Stories
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