The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule of law and human rights is universal–a world free of dictators, terrorists, warmongers and fanatics, where men and women of all nationalities, races, traditions and creeds can coexist in the culture of freedom, where borders give way to bridges that people cross to reach their goals limited only by free will and respect for one another's rights. It is a search to which I've dedicated my writing, and so many have taken notice. But is it not a search to which we should all devote our very lives? The answer is clear when we see what is at stake . Mario Vargas Llosa
This above all: to thine own self be true.
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William Shakespeare
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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Helen Keller
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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Hermann Hesse
Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my...
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Tennessee Williams
Most people spend their whole lives waging war–against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS
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Germaine Shames
More Quotes By Mario Vargas Llosa
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own–the place where we live–and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
