The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Julio Cortázar
- I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
- Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
- 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.
- Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn’t belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it’s life itself defending itself. Etcetera.
- But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.
- All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
- I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.
- 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.
- After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
- She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) was an influential Argentine writer, best known for his innovative and surreal storytelling. Born in Brussels, Belgium, to Argentine parents, Cortázar grew up in Buenos Aires, where he studied literature and became a teacher. He was deeply influenced by European literature, particularly the works of surrealists and existentialists.
Cortázar is celebrated for his short stories, novels, and essays that often blur the line between reality and fantasy. His most famous novel, Hopscotch (Rayuela, 1963), is considered a masterpiece of 20th-century literature, offering readers multiple ways to navigate the story. His short story collections, such as Blow-up and Other Stories (Final del juego, 1956), showcase his ability to infuse the ordinary with the extraordinary.
A key figure in the Latin American Boom, Cortázar’s work remains influential, characterized by its experimental structure, playful language, and profound exploration of human experience. He spent much of his later life in France, where he passed away in 1984.
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