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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.
It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
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.
Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...
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.
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
