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I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 28
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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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One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
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We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
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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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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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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.
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A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.
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I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
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I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
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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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A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
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Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
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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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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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It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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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.
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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
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I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. 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 couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.
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