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Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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What do you want? Love asks for streets, asks for wind, it doesn't know how to die in solitude.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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You are wrong to get your hopes up, I am far from everything. So far that it disgusts me.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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After forty years, our true face is on the back of our neck, desperately looking backwards.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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As if one could choose in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that breaks your bones...

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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I believe that from a very young age, my misfortune and my fortune, at the same time, was not accepting things as they were given to me.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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Not just anyone goes crazy, you have to deserve those things.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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You know it well, everything that sets us apart is ultimately what allows us to live so well together.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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I believe that the only great loss is illusions, and sometimes certainties, no matter how beautiful they are, fail to replace them.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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That you were not the love of my life, nor of my days, nor of my moment. But that I loved you, and that I love you, even though we are destined not to be.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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It's strange how innocence can be lost all at once, without even knowing that it has entered another life.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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But there is something that time cannot, despite its undeniable destructive capacity, cancel out: and those are the good memories, the faces of the past, the hours in which one has been happy.

Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés

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It is better to die with honor than to live dishonored.