Hope is not optimism. Hope is the will to keep trying despit... - Mario Vargas Llosa

"Hope is not optimism. Hope is the will to keep trying despite knowing we might fail."

Mario Vargas Llosa Hope

Novelist Peruvian Born 1936 (age 90)

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