Cameo

“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to the era of globalization, the fictions of literature have multiplied human experiences, preventing us from succumbing to lethargy, self-absorption, resignation. Nothing has sown so much disquiet, so disturbed our imagination and our desires as the life of lies we add, thanks to literature, to the one we have, so we can be protagonists in the great adventures, the great passions real life will never give us. The lies of literature become truths through us, the readers transformed, infected with longings and, through the fault of fiction, permanently questioning a mediocre reality. Sorcery, when literature offers us the hope of having what we do not have, being what we are not, acceding to that impossible existence where like pagan gods we feel mortal and eternal at the same time, that introduces into our spirits non-conformity and rebellion, which are behind all the heroic deeds that have contributed to the reduction of violence in human relationships. Reducing violence, not ending it. Because ours will always be, fortunately, an unfinished story. That is why we have to continue dreaming, reading, and writing, the most effective way we have found to alleviate our mortal condition, to defeat the corrosion of time, and to transform the impossible into possibility.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“Lo injusta que es a veces la suerte con los artistas que sueñan con encontrar el Paraíso en este terrenal valle de lágrimas.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, El Paraíso en la otra esquina

“Where there's life there's hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Éramos más que enamorados, Gee. Hermanos, cómplices. Las dos caras de una moneda. Así de unidos. Tú fuiste muchas cosas para mí. La madre que perdí a los nueve años. Los amigos que nunca tuve. Contigo me sentí siempre mejor que con mis propios hermanos. Me dabas confianza, seguridad en la vida, alegría.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, El sueño del celta