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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
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...
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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.
