Confronting mortality helps us understand what truly matters... - Mario Vargas Llosa

"Confronting mortality helps us understand what truly matters."

Mario Vargas Llosa Death

Novelist Peruvian Born 1936 (age 90)

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"The novel is the most perfect instrument for understanding human nature."

"Literature is fire."

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for other people."

"Death doesn't scare me anymore."

"Death and I are old friends."

"Welcome to my world."

"Death is just the beginning."