Latest quotes | Random quotes | Latest comments | Submit quote

Julio Cortázar

What we call absurd is our ignorance.

in The Winners (1960)Report problemRelated quotes
Added by Dan Costinaş
Comment! | Vote! | Copy! | In Spanish | In Romanian

Share

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

quote by Report problemRelated quotes
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Share

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

quote by Report problemRelated quotes
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Share

The marquise went out at five, Carlos Lopez thought. Where in the hell did I read that?

opening line from The Winners by (1960), translated by Elaine KerriganReport problemRelated quotes
Added by Dan Costinaş
Comment! | Vote! | Copy! | In Spanish | In Romanian

Share

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.

quote by Report problemRelated quotes
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Share

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

quote by Report problemRelated quotes
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Share

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

quote by Report problemRelated quotes
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Share

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.

quote by Report problemRelated quotes
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Share
 

If you know another quote, please submit it.

Search


Recent searches | Top searches
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar