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Even Though What I Enjoy Most Is Literature, I Would Not Want To Live Only In A World Of Fiction, Cut Off From The Rest Of Life. No - I Want To Always Have A Foot In The Street, To Be Inmersed In The Activities Of My Contemporaries, In The Times, In The Place Where I Live.

-Mario Vargas Llosa

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Even Though What I Enjoy Most Is

Mario Vargas Llosa

Even Though What I Enjoy Most Is Literature, I Would Not Want To Live Only In A World Of Fiction, Cut Off From The Rest Of Life. No - I Want To Always Have A Foot In The Street, To Be Inmersed In The Activities Of My Contemporaries, In The Times, In The Place Where I Live.

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