“ 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
“ Fue entonces cuando tuvo la idea de los espacios salvadores, la idea de que la civilización no era, no había sido nunca un movimiento, un estado de cosas general, un ambiente que abrazara al conjunto… Mario Vargas Llosa
“ 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 exp… Mario Vargas Llosa
“ Não tem maisl ugar o escritor mandarim, aquele que, como Sartre na França ou Ortega Y Gasset e Unamuno em seu tempo ou um Octavio Paz ainda entre nós, faz as vezes de guia e mestre em todas as questõe… Mario Vargas Llosa
“ Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. Mario Vargas Llosa
“ Resultó desconcertante para muchos lectores de La riqueza de las naciones descubrir que no es el altruismo ni la caridad, sino más bien el egoísmo, el motor del progreso: Mario Vargas Llosa
“ Y sigo pensando que, a pesar de haber vivido ya tantos veranos, aquél fue el más fabuloso de todos. Mario Vargas Llosa
“ 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 Mario Vargas Llosa
“ Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust… Mario Vargas Llosa
“ Esas gentes que se inmolan por la verdad o la justicia a menudo hacen más daño del que quieren remediar. Mario Vargas Llosa
“ If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know. Mario Vargas Llosa
“ 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. Mario Vargas Llosa
“ It wouldn’t surprise me if in a little while they begin to worship Leopold the Second the way they worship their fetishes and hideous objects. Where Mario Vargas Llosa
“ I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings. Mario Vargas Llosa
“ ¿Has hecho bien en volver? Te arrepentirás, Urania. Desperdiciar una semana de vacaciones, tú que nunca tenías tiempo para conocer tantas ciudades, regiones, países que te hubiera gustado ver -las cor… Mario Vargas Llosa
“ Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. Mario Vargas Llosa
