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Julio Cortazar Quotes: The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
         

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.


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I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.



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

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



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.

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.



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.

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.



The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.



Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.



Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.



The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.



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

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



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.

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.





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I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.



I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.

I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.



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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.



The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.



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Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth



There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.



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I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing



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As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.



Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.




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