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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
Don't ask me why, because I'm not even going to tell you dead. I'm never going to tell you that I love you even if she loves you.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.
When I thought I was going to lose my mind in the face of so much suffering. This is how I discovered that a human being cannot live without believing.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.