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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
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.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.
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.
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.
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.
You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa.
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
