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.

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He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.

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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

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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.

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Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

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Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

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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...

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I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

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Don't ask me why, because I'm not even going to tell you dead. I'm never going to tell you that I love you even if she loves you.

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