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Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.
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When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.
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It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.
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One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
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Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
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We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.
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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.
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A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won't help your career.
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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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Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
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Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
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You can't make facts fit the rules, it is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.
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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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Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
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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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Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
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Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers.
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The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.
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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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Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favour freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
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Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.
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Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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March 28, 1936
(age 88)
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