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One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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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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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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Sentia una inmensa ternura por ella. Estaba seguro de que la querria siempre, para mi dicha y tambien mi desdicha.
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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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That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.
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Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality
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romance
the-bad-girl
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Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
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Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
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Why would anyone who is deeply satisfied with reality, with real life as it is lived, dedicate himself to something as insubstantial and fanciful as the creation of fictional realities? Naturally, those who rebel against lie as it is, using their ability to invent different lives and different people, may do so for any number of reasons, honorable or dishonorable, generous or selfish, complex or banal. The nature of this basic questioning o..
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No me preguntes por que, porque ni muerta te lo voy a decir. Nunca te voy a decir que te quiero aunque te quiera.
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Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.
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n m yfsWr lbTwl@ khyr tfsyr lyst ldwf` lsmy@ dy'man. hnk ltHml , Dyq l`ql w 'shd m ymkn tSwrh mn l'fkr Gban.
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Hay dias en que la recuerdo y me pregunto: ?Que estara haciendo? Hay noches en que la extrano y me pregunto: ?Que me estoy haciendo?
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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La verdad, habia en ella algo que era imposible no admirar, por esas razones que nos llevan a apreciar las obras bien hechas, aunque sean perversas.
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It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of themselves, breaking down barriers, and making them share, by identifying with the characters of the illusion, a life that is richer, more intense, or more abject and violent, or simply different from the one that they are confined to by the high-security prison that is real life. Fictions exist because of this fact. Bec..
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It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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escribir lo que no se habia vivido, lo que solo se habia querido vivir, era tambien una manera --cobarde y timida-- de vivirlo...
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writing
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Aunque dicen que solo los imbeciles son felices, confieso que me sentia feliz.
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El secreto de la felicidad, o, por lo menos, de la tranquilidad, es saber separar el sexo del amor. Y, si es posible, eliminar el amor romantico de tu vida, que es el que hace sufrir. Asi se vive mas tranquilo y se goza mas, te aseguro.
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At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who were poor and illiterate, so much injustice, and where culture was a privilege of the few. These doubts, however, never stifled my calling, and I always kept writing even during those periods when earning a living absorbed most of my time. I believe I did the right thing, since if, for literature to fl..
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hkdh hy lsys@ ,nh shq lTryq byn ljthth
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Lo injusta que es a veces la suerte con los artistas que suenan con encontrar el Paraiso en este terrenal valle de lagrimas.
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destino
vida
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O comes o te comen, no hay mas remedio.
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Para todo el mundo es mas dificil vivir en la verdad que en la mentira.
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Tu eres bonita sobre todo cuando sonries.
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In this country, in one way or another, everyone had bean, was, or would be part of the regime. "The worst thing that can happen to a Dominican is to be intelligent or competent," he had once heard Agustin Cabral say ...and the words had been etched in his mind: "Because sooner or later Trujillo will call upon him to serve the regime, or his person, and when he calls, one is not permitted to say no." [Agustin Cabral] was proof of this truth..
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L'ispirazione non esiste. E forse qualcosa che guida le mani di scultori e pittori e detta immagini e note all'udito di poeti e musicisti, ma che non va mai a trovare il romanziere: quest'ultimo e del tutto trascurato dalle muse ed e condannato a sostituire quella collaborazione negatagli con la testardaggine, la fatica e la pazienza
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Los zorros del desierto de Sechura aullan como demonios cuando llega la noche; ?sabes por que?: para quebrar el silencio que los aterroriza.
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The sort of decision arrived at by saints and madmen is not revealed to others. It is forged little by little, in the folds of the spirit, tangential to reason, shielded from indiscreet eyes, not seeking the approval of others--who would never grant it--until it is at last put into practice. I imagine that in the process--the conceiving of a project and its ripening into action--the saint, the visionary, or the madman isolates himself more ..
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Un libro abierto es un cerebro que habla; cerrado, un amigo que espera; olvidado, un alma que perdona; destruido, un corazon que llora>>.
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Secretul fericirii, sau cel putin al linistii, e sa stii sa desparti sexul de iubire. Si, daca e posibil, sa elimini iubirea romantica din viata ta, caci ea te face sa suferi.
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
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They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime.
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Nostalgia is cowardice
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lae shaewYkhy dLgyr hych shtYkh zoertr lae khwYndny khtYbYkhy bsh mroev hYwr nkhtaewae, nae saeyrkhrdny fylm w nae gwYgrtn lae moesyq. bkhaewy w bkhwYny w bYkhaeyLy `laem w y'daem w dny byt.
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
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Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss between what we are and what we would like to be has to be bridged somehow. That was why fictions were born: so that, through living this vicarious, transient, precarious, but also passionate and fascinating life that fiction transports us to, we can incorporate the impossible into the possible and our..
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words
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reading
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The essential difference between the culture of the past and the entertainment of today is that the products of the former sought to transcend mere present time, to endure, to stay alive for future generations, while the products of the latter are made to be consumed instantly and disappear, like cake or popcorn.
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Scrivere un romanzo e una cerimonia che somiglia allo streap-tease. Come la ragazza che, sotto impudichi riflettori, si libera dei propri indumenti e mostra, a uno a uno, i suoi incanti segreti, cosi anche il romanziere mette a nudo la propria intimita in pubblico attraverso i suoi romanzi.
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premi-nobel
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Pueden ustedes reirse de mi, cuando les de la espalda.
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mofa
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He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.
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Escribo. Escribo que escribo. Mentalmente me veo escribir que escribo y tambien puedo verme ver que escribo. Me recuerdo escribiendo ya y tambien viendome que escribia. Y me veo recordando que me veo escribir y me recuerdo viendome recordar que escribia y escribo viendome escribir que recuerdo haberme visto escribir que me veia escribir que recordaba haberme visto escribir que escribia y que escribia que escribo que escribia. Tambien puedo ..
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