Author: Vargas Llosa, Mario

Cites

• Enrique Jose Rodo (1)
  • IN: The Dream of the Celt (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Each one of us is, successively, not one but many. And these successive personalities that emerge one from the other tend to present the strangest, most astonishing contrasts among themselves.
    FROM: Motives of Proteus, (1909), Book, Uruguay
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: The Discreet Hero (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Our beautiful task is to imagine there is a labyrinth and a thread.
    FROM: The Fable's Thread, (1985), NULL, Argentina
• Flaubert (1)
  • IN: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Il y a des hommes n'ayant pour mission parmi les autres que de servir d'intermediaires; on les franchit comme des ponts, et l'on va plus lion
    FROM: L'education sentimenale, (1869), Novel, France
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1)
  • IN: The Time of the Hero (1962) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We play the part of heroes because we're cowards, the part of saints because we're wicked: we play the killer's role because we're dying to murder our fellow man: we play at being because we're liars from the moment we're born.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: Death in the Andes (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Cain's City built with Human Blood, not Blood of Bulls and Goats.
    FROM: The Ghost of Abel, (1822), Religious Text, UK
• Balzac (1)
  • IN: Conversation in the Cathedral (1975) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Il faut avoir fouille toute la vie sociale pour etre un vrai romancier, vu que le roman est l'histoire privee des nations.
    FROM: Petites miseres de la vie conjugale, (1846), Book, France
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Feast of the Goat (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The people celebrate and go all the way for the Feast of the Goat the Thirtieth of May.
    FROM: They Killed the Goat, (None), Song, Dominican Republic
  • IN: The War of the End of the World (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The Antichrist was born To govern Brazil But the Counselor is come To deliver us from him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Salvador Elizondo (1)
  • IN: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I write. I write that I am writing. Mentally I see myself writing that I am writing and I can also see myself seeing that I am writing. I remember writing and also seeing myself writing. And I see myself remembering that I see myself writing and I remember seeing myself remembering that I was writing and I write seeing myself write that I remember having seen myself write that I saw myself writing that I was writing and that I was writing that I was writing that I was writing. I can also imagine myself writing that I had already written that I would imagine myself writing that I had written that I was imagining myself writing that I see myself writing that I am writing.
    FROM: The Graphography, (1972), Book, Mexico
• Paul Valéry (1)
  • IN: The Way to Paradise (2005) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What would become of us without the help of what doesn't exist?
    FROM: "Petite Lettre sur les mythes", (1929), Book, France
• César Moro (1)
  • IN: In Praise of the Stepmother (1988) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One must wear one's vices like a royal mantle, with poise. Like an aureole that one is unaware of, that one pretends not to perceive. It is only natures entirely given over to vice whose contours do not grow blurred in the hyaline mire of the atmosphere. Beauty is a -- marvelous -- vice of form.
    FROM: Amour à mort, (None), NULL, Peru