Julio Cortázar Quote

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.

Nothing is lost if you have the courage to proclaim that everything is lost and you have to start again.

Julio Cortázar

How long are we going to continue believing that happiness is nothing more than one of the games of illusion?

Julio Cortázar

In reality, the truly difficult things are everything that people believe they can do at any moment.

Julio Cortázar

The customs, Andrée, are concrete forms of rhythm, they are the quota of rhythm that helps us to live.

Julio Cortázar

Hope belongs to life, it is life itself defending itself.

Julio Cortázar

I think I don't love you, I just want the obvious impossibility of loving you like the left hand in love with that glove living on the right.

Julio Cortázar

The words are never enough when what needs to be said overflows the soul.

Julio Cortázar

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

Julio Cortázar

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

Julio Cortázar

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

Julio Cortázar

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

Julio Cortázar

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