"Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while……" — Mario Vargas Llosa

"Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his."

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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38 Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within…
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize,…
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because…
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if…
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in…
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an…
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian…

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More Affliction Quotes

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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