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Mario Vargas Llosa
“Il n'y a rien de mieux qu'un roman pour faire comprendre que la réalité est mal faite, qu’elle n’est pas suffisante pour satisfaire les désirs, les appétits, les rêves humains.”
Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa
“And on the horizon, along the Cordillera where rock and sky met, there was that strange color, somewhere between violet and purple, which he had seen reproduced on so many Indian skirts and shawls and on the woolen bags the campesinos hung from the ears of their llamas; for him it was the color of the Andes, of this mysterious, violent sierra.

Besides, thanks to these hills, Naccos had an aura, a magic power. Danger always attracts us. Doesn’t it represent true life, life that’s worthwhile? But security is boredom, it’s stupidity, it’s death. These mountains are full of ancient tombs.Without those presences there wouldn’t be so many spirits in this part of the Andes.

In the old days people had the courage to face great troubles by making sacrifices. That’s how they maintained the balance. Life and death like a scale with two equal weights, like two rams of equal strength that lock horns and neither one can advance or retreat.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, Death in the Andes

Mario Vargas Llosa
“I discovered that the predisposition for languages is as mysterious as the inclination of certain people for mathematics or music and has nothing to do with intelligence or knowledge. It is something separate, a gift that some possess and others don’t.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Bad Girl

Mario Vargas Llosa
“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 existence can be both reality and unreality, history and fable, concrete life and marvellous adventure.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables

Mario Vargas Llosa
“patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Dream of the Celt

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