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Phrases for thought, ideas for harmony: excerpts from the speech of Mario Vargas Llosa in Stockholm (December 7, 2010)

No speech is infallible and is not exempt from criticism. Poor intellectual thought that does not deserve controversy. But beyond the debatable issues that undoubtedly contains the speech given by Mario Vargas Llosa on the day before receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature 2010, there are phrases, ideas and considerations that should, in my opinion, highlight. Not in vain for us to think about key issues of our history and our time.

"... what an extraordinary privilege for a country that has no single identity because it has them all."

"English and Latin American writers ... were mixed and fraternized, recognizing owners of the same tradition and allies in a common enterprise and a certain "

" The homeland is not the flags and anthems, or apodictic discourse on the iconic heroes, but a handful of places and people that populate our stained memories and melancholy, the warm feeling that, no matter where we are, there is a home to which we return. "

" Without the fiction would be less aware of the importance of freedom for life livable and hell where it becomes when it is trampled by a tyrant, an ideology or a religion. "

"No city took both Barcelona and better than the beginning of opening (in the last years of Franco) not experienced a similar excitement in all fields of ideas and creation. Became cultural capital of Spain, where he had to be breathing the advance of freedom is coming. And in a way, was also the cultural capital of Latin America by the number of painters, writers, editors and artists from Latin American countries that settled there, or came and went to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbecause it was where you had to be if one I wanted to be a poet, novelist, painter or composer of our time. "

"For let us not serve us to invent machines to be their servants and slaves. And because a world without literature would be a world without ideals or desires or contempt, a world of robots deprived of what makes the human being truly human: the ability to leave and move himself into another, in others, modeled with the clay of our dreams. "

" Because we will always Fortunately, an unfinished story "

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