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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.
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.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
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.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
