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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
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.
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.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
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.
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.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.