Julio Cortazar's Profile
Brief about Julio Cortazar: By info that we know Julio Cortazar was born at 1914-08-26. And also Julio Cortazar is Argentinian Writer.
Some Julio Cortazar's quotes. Goto "Julio Cortazar's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Dreams, Poetry, SometimesOnly by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Tags: Break, Living, PossibleEverything 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.
Tags: Color, Eyes, LoveWhy 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?
Tags: Future, Lost, WhyWhat 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?
Tags: Good, Help, WriterThe meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
Tags: Eat, Quite, RoomThe priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
Tags: Religious, Society, WomanThis city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
Tags: City, Places, PublicAmong these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
Tags: Able, Enough, HumanAn abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.
Tags: Body, Human, UsedThe city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.
Tags: Half, Speak, WaterThere are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.
Tags: Drink, Food, HeadThere are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
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