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Julio Cortazar [1914-1984] Argentinian

Rank: 108
Writer, Novelist

Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.

Dreams, Poetry

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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.	Dreams, Poetry	101
Everything 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.		102
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.		103
And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?		104
Why 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?		105
What 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?		106

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