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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
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.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
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.
