226 Quotes by Julio Cortázar

No era difícil imaginar el diálogo, pero si hubiese estado solo con Hélène ella no me hubiera dicho eso, probablemente no me hubiera dicho nada, atenta y ajena; una vez más la incluía sin derecho, imaginariamente, como un consuelo por tanta distancia y tanto silencio. Ya nada teníamos que decirnos Hélène y yo, que nos habíamos dicho tan poco.

Los ojos son las únicas manos que nos van quedando a unos cuantos, bonita

If I were a moviemaker I'd set about hunting sunsets.

Y hay una sola saliva y un solo sabor a fruta madura, y yo te siento temblar contra mí como una luna en el agua.

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts

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.

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

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 the skin when you come out of a concert.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.