Solitude is necessary for the creative mind, but isolation i... - Mario Vargas Llosa

"Solitude is necessary for the creative mind, but isolation is the death of the soul."

Mario Vargas Llosa Solitude

Novelist Peruvian Born 1936 (age 90)

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