Julio Cortázar
"The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes."
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"The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes."
"أفضل الأدب هو دائمًا انطلاقة؛ يكمن في إنجازها خطرٌ كامن، وهامشٌ من المجازفة هو عين متعة التحليق، ومتعة الحب. تحمل في طياتها خسارة ملموسة، ولكنها في الوقت ذاته اندماج كلي، وهذا، على مستوى آخر، يمنح المسرح عدم كماله الفريد في مواجهة كمال الفيلم. لا أريد أن أكتب سوى الانطلاقات."
Julio Cortázar
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."
"كل تشتيت عميق يفتح أبواباً معينة. عليك أن تسمح لنفسك بالتشتت حين تعجز عن التركيز."
Julio Cortázar
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
"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."
Julio Cortázar
"Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth."
Julio Cortázar
"Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo."
Julio Cortázar
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