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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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.
