Julio Cortázar Quotes

I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again, every time I can make the mouth I want appear, the mouth which my hand chooses and sketches on your face, and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you.

Translation: We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.

Translation: Now it happens that turtles are great speed enthusiasts, which is natural.
The esperanzas know that and don't bother themselves about it.
The famas know it, and make fun of it.
The cronopios know it, and each time they meet a turtle, they haul out the box of colored chalks, and on the rounded blackboard of the turtle's shell they draw a swallow.

Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo.

The only true exile is the writer who lives in his own country.

Translation: Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.

The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.