Best quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa on Life

Checkout quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa on Life

• ‟ To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.

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• ‟ I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

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• ‟ I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

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• ‟ Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

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• ‟ Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

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• ‟ I remember, when I was young, to have a literary or artistic vocation was really dramatic because you were so isolated from the common world. You felt that you were marginal, and if you dared to try to organise your life around your vocation, you knew you'd be completely segregated.

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• ‟ Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

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• ‟ I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

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• ‟ I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

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• ‟ I thought that, when I came to New York, that I would have a very life here for three months or three and a half months. And my impression is that it won't be so quiet as I wanted.

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• ‟ I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.

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