The 35 best phrases of Julio Cortázar to fall in love

Out of the figures of Latin American literature If there was someone who with his continuous questioning about reason, emotion and life created a genre, as much his own as he was adored by his readers, it was Julio Cortázar.

For those who have not yet enjoyed immersion in each of their worlds and for those who have already tried it and know what it is to surrender to the taste of their words, We have prepared this selection of the best phrases by Julio Cortázar.

The best famous phrases of Julio Cortázar

We can only say… enjoy them!

1. We walked without looking for us but knowing that we were to meet.

Walking through the inevitable crossroads that destiny reserves for timeless loves.

2. I think we all have a bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us going when everything around is so insanely sane.

One of the favorites among the phrases by Julio Cortázar for those who see the world from the outside.

3. You look for what you call harmony, but you look for it right there where you just said that it is not, among friends, family, in the city.

When we yearn to find the missing element as a key piece of the puzzle.

4. It would have been so easy to organize a coherent scheme, an order of thought and life, a harmony. The usual hypocrisy was enough, raising the past to the value of experience, taking advantage of the wrinkles on the face, the lived air that is in the smiles or the silences of over forty years.

The coherence seen from the irony when portraying the experience as something that the years give, not the life experiences.

5. Come sleep with me: we will not make love, he will make us.

When love rises to another category between two people and welcomes them as part of it, not as something they create.

6. Insignificant gifts like a kiss at an unexpected moment or a written piece of paper in a hurry. They may be worth more than a gem.

And with a way of writing like yours, can anyone doubt it?

7. Behind this sad spectacle of words, the hope that you read me trembles unspeakably, that I have not completely died in your memory.

One of the most beautiful phrases de Julio Cortázar exhausting the last light of hope.

8. That is why we will never be the perfect couple, the postcard, if we are not able to accept that only in arithmetic is two born of one plus one.

Because in the imperfect couples of true loves, one plus one adds up to much more than two.

9. My interest soon turned analytical. Tired of wondering, I wanted to know; That is the invariable and fatal end of all adventure.

A reflection as precious as it is sadly trueBecause how many have not broken the spell of the moment by dissecting reality?

10. If you fall I pick you up and if I don't sleep with you.

And with you... to the end of the world or wherever life takes us.

11. We were not in love, we made love with a detached and critical virtuosity, but then we fell into terrible silences and the The foam from the beer glasses grew like tow, warmed and contracted as we looked at each other and weather.

A highly poetic way of portraying the absence of emotions between lovers united only by desire.

12. Subtotal: I love you. Grand total: I love you.

How can you say so much with something so concise? That is why it is one of our favorites among the phrases of Julio Cortázar.

13. People think they are friends because they spend a few hours a week on a couch, a movie, sometimes a bed, or because they have to do the same work in the office.

A reality for those who do not ignore that true friendships are counted on the fingers of the hands.

14. Music! Melancholic food for those of us who live on love.

Because few things connect so incisively with the soul as the music itself.

15. In short, since I was little, my relationship with words, with writing, is no different from my relationship with the world in general. I seem to have been born to not accept things as they are given to me.

Rebellion made prose, in another of the great quotes of the Argentine author.

16. All tomorrow is the blackboard where I invent and draw you.

Sublimated love to dream every day.

17. The explanation is a well-dressed mistake

A sample of the ironic wit of the famous author.

18. After forty years we have the true face on the back of our neck, desperately looking back

Among the phrases of Julio Cortázar this is one that best illustrates the change in our way of looking at life when enough experiences are accumulated.

19. 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 that lives on the right

It seems to mean, "Make it difficult for me and you will have my adoration."

20. Probably of all our feelings the only one that is not truly ours is hope. Hope belongs to life, it is life itself defending itself

As was usual for him, the author strips us of the ownership of great things; like love or hope.

21. Every time I will feel less and remember more, but what is the memory but the language of the feelings, a dictionary of faces and days and perfumes that return like verbs and adjectives in speech.

For those who have a rich inner universe, no more words are needed.

22. Life, as a comment on something else that we do not reach, and that is there within the reach of the leap that we do not take.

Incredible reflection of the Argentine author. This is probably the case with what differentiates a dull life from an unspeakable one.

23. When friends understand each other well, when lovers understand each other well, when families understand each other well, then we believe in harmony. Pure deception, mirror for larks. Sometimes I feel that there is much more understanding between two who are punching their faces than between those who are there looking from the outside.

There can be no greater truth between these phrases by Julio Cortázar. How many believe in connection when they only coexist?

24. My love, I do not want you for you or for me or for the two of you together, I do not love you because the blood calls me to love you, I love you because you are not mine, because you are on the other side, there where I You invite me to jump and I cannot jump, because in the depths of possession you are not in me, I do not reach you, I do not pass from your body, from your laughter, there are hours when it torments me that love.

Forbidden love turned into the engine to yearn for.

25. We cannot speak of stages without presupposing a goal.

One more sample of the author's mental acuity.

26. What many people call loving is choosing a woman and marrying her. They choose her, I swear, I've seen them. As if she could choose in love, as if she were not a lightning bolt that breaks your bones and leaves you stuck in the middle of the yard.

When you are starting to laugh at the observation you begin to surrender to the closing clasp of his reflection.

27. Words are never enough when what needs to be said overflows the soul

Among the phrases of Julio Cortázar, here is one of those that makes us mute.

28. The trick is to become strong of heart without losing the tenderness of the soul

That is knowing how to grow despite the falls on the road.

29. Always complaining about everything and at the same time pretending not to care about anything. You live on hope but you don't even know what you expect.

One of the statements that could well serve for many people.

30. My diagnosis is simple; I know that I have no remedy

Concise, conclusive, great.

31. I'll shuffle everything again to find you how I want

How can she hide so much poetry in so few words?

32. If you see me for any of your thoughts, hug me because I miss you

Directly, one of Julio Cortázar's phrases to fall asleep and speechless.

33. They had nothing to do with it, he analyzed everything too much, she just lived

The reason and the heart made a couple.

34. And I must say that I fully trust the chance of having met you. That I will never try to forget you, and that if I did, I would not succeed. That I love looking at you and that I make you mine just by seeing you from afar. That I adore your moles and your chest seems to me like paradise. 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.

Speechless.

35. One day the day will come, the day to hug you, to finally undress from so many clothes and so much waiting

The perfect finishing touch to our selection of phrases by Julio Cortázar.

We hope we have left you with honey on your lips and you want to enjoy this author more.