Julio Cortazar Quotes

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is. But the thing that makes us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in another direction.

I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.

I'm a card-carrying existentialist.

NEVER! Never, Marge! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?!

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.