You know who you are by the twinkle in the mirrors of your soul upon reading that.
Some quotes I would like to highlight of Mario Vargas Llosa in his Nobel Prize 2010 speech "In praise of reading and fiction." Never stop expressing and revolutionizing yourself in the best possible way in each moment this life offers. I am a dreamer and seek to not be afraid of change ~the constant opportunity that is present down to the exchanges of vibrating energy. I am inspired by the convocation of so many selves I am so lucky to be surrounded by near and far, in reality and fiction. Enjoy =)
"Sartre, that words are acts, that a novel, a play, or an essay, engaged with the present moment and better options, can change the course of history...Camus and Orwell, that a literature stripped of morality is inhuman."
"When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal."
"But thanks to literature, to the consciousness it shapes, the desires and longings it inspires, and our disenchantment with reality when we return from the journey to a beautiful fantasy, civilization is now less cruel than when storytellers began to humanize life with their fables."
"Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look
in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to
know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of
the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow
the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal."
"Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity. Since every period has its horrors, ours is the age of fanatics, of suicide terrorists, an ancient species convinced that by killing they earn heaven, that the blood of innocents washes away collective affronts, corrects injustices, and imposes truth on false beliefs."
The following is exactly why I am against the existence of WMDs, we are better than succumbing to the games of power that play with the existence of our planet. This fear created is used to manipulate international decisions that they too fall into the black hole of a storm it has created. Humanity has been sacrificed enough by being placed at the edge of a the dying star: creating pockets in the protection of it and other parts to the whole. I prefer governmentality that goes straight to the people through programs like education and the funding the dreamers...those who believe that unselfish actions instead of seeking for power and rule should be funded MORE and not LESS...but the black hole of seeking absolute power through games of fencing, searching to touche le nez of the other's ego...will be a faster track towards extinction.
"Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.
Since every period has its horrors, ours is the age of fanatics, of suicide terrorists, an ancient species convinced that by killing they earn heaven, that the blood of innocents washes away collective affronts, corrects injustices, and imposes truth on false beliefs. Every day, all over the world, countless victims are sacrificed by those who feel they possess absolute truths. With the collapse of totalitarian empires, we believed that living together, peace, pluralism, and human rights would gain the ascendancy and the world would leave behind holocausts, genocides, invasions, and wars of extermination. None of that has occurred. New forms of barbarism flourish, incited by fanaticism, and with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, we cannot overlook the fact that any small faction of crazed redeemers may one day provoke a nuclear cataclysm. We have to thwart them, confront them, and defeat them. There aren’t many, although the tumult of their crimes resounds all over the planet and the nightmares they provoke overwhelm us with dread. We should not allow ourselves to be intimidated by those who want to snatch away the freedom we have been acquiring over the long course of civilization.Let us defend the liberal democracy that, with all its limitations, continues to signify political pluralism, coexistence, tolerance, human rights, respect for criticism, legality, free elections, alternation in power, everything that has been taking us out of a savage life and bringing us closer – though we will never attain it – to the beautiful, perfect life literature devises, the one we can deserve only by inventing, writing, and reading it. By confronting homicidal fanatics we defend our right to dream and to make our dreams reality."
Highly recommend the whole piece as reading art =)
