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But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 28
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The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.
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Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
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When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.
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Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.
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I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.
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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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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
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I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.
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If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
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North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
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Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.
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We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
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