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Julio Cortázar
7 quotes
“Andábamos sin buscarnos pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos.”
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again, every time I can make the mouth I want appear, the mouth which my hand chooses and sketches on your face, and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you.”
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo.”
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ahora pasa que las tortugas son grandes admiradoras de la velocidad, como es natural. Las esperanzas lo saben, y no se preocupan. Los famas lo saben, y se burlan. Los cronopios lo saben, y cada vez que encuentran una tortuga, sacan la caja de tizas de colores y sobre la redonda pizarra de la tortuga dibujan una golondrina.”
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hair loss and retrieval" (Translation of "Pérdida y recuperación del pelo")”
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.”
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only true exile is the writer who lives in his own country.”
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source