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More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
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.
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.
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.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
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.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
