The War of the End of the World Quotes

“Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“إن ما يفسّر البطولة خير تفسير ليست الدوافع السامية دائماً. هناك التحامل ، ضيق العقل و أشد ما يمكن تصوره من الأفكار غباءً.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Nostalgia is cowardice”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“زمین از اینکه ناچار است یکسر همان چیزها را بر گرده خودش ببیند خسته شده است و یک روز فریادش درمی‌آید که می‌خواهد کمی هم آرام بگیرد.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“And yet, my dear Estela, in the end one accepts the will of God, resigns oneself, and discovers that, even with all its calvaries, life is full of beautiful things.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain their existence here, at the end of the world, among people who possessed nothing but the rags and the lice they had on them?”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“سالار آزادی خدا نیست؛ شیطان آن عاصی اولین است!”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“La sua cecità intellettuale non gli permetteva di capire che questi fratelli, con istinto sicuro, hanno orientato la loro rivolta verso il nemico primo della libertà: il potere. E qual è il potere che li opprime, che nega loro il diritto alla terra, alla cultura, all'uguaglianza? Non è forse la Repubblica? E se sono armati per combatterla ciò significa che hanno indovinato anche il metodo, l'unico che posseggono gli sfruttati per spezzare le loro catene: la forza.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“منطقه‌ای که در آن بردگی اخلاقی و جسمی زنان به حد افراط کشیده شده است، چون این‌ها تحت ستم مالک، پدر، برادر و شوهر هستند. این‌طرف‌ها مالک برای زیردستانش همسر انتخاب می‌کند و زن جماعت درست توی خیابان زیر شلاق پدران حیوان‌صفت و شوهران مستشان می‌افتند و مردمی هم که شاهد این صحنه‌ها هستند در کمال بی‌اعتنایی تماشا می‌کنند. این خوراکی برای تفکر است! ما باید کاری کنیم که انقلاب نه تنها به استثمار انسان از انسان که به استثمار زن به‌دست مرد هم پایان بدهد و در کنار برابری طبقات، برابری جنسی را هم برقرار کند.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“مگر غیر از چند اسم، چیز دیگری برای آنها عوض‌شده بود؟ مگر این چشم‌انداز با زمین تفته خشک و آسمان سربی‌اش مثل همیشه نبود؟ مگر به‌رغم سال‌ها خشک‌سالی این منطقه باز در تلاش این نبود که زخم‌هایش را مرهمی بگذارد، بر مردگانش مویه کند و آنچه ویران‌شده بود دوباره به زندگی برگرداند؟ حالا که رئیس‌جمهور به‌جای امپراتور نشسته بود، در کشور مصیبت‌زده چه چیزی عوض‌شده بود؟”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“El sexo había sido para él, igual que el alimento, algo que aplacaba una necesidad primaria y luego producía hastío”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“The Counselor brought about that miracle, he turned the wolf into the lamb, he brought him into the fold. And because he turned wolves into lambs, because he gave people who knew only fear and hatred, hunger, crime, and pillaging reasons to change their lives, because he brought spirituality where there had been cruelty, they are sending army after army to these lands to exterminate these people. How has Brazil, how has the world been overcome with such confusion as to commit such an abominable deed? Isn't that sufficient proof that the Counselor is right, that Satan has indeed taken possession of Brazil, that the Republic is the Antichrist?”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“مذهب همیشه برای خواب کردن مردم و بازداشتن آن‌ها از شورش علیه اربابانشان به‌کار گرفته‌شده.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“The simple fact is that he didn’t write what he saw but what he felt and believed, what those all around him felt and believed. That’s how that whole tangled web of false stories and humbug got woven, becoming so intricate that there is now no way to disentangle it.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“این کلمه وطن یک روز از بین می‌رود. آن‌وقت مردم به پشت سرشان، با ما نگاه می‌کنند که خودمان را توی مرزها حبس کرده بودیم و سر چند تا خط روی نقشه همدیگر را می‌کشتیم، بعد می‌گویند این‌ها عجب احمق‌هایی بوده‌اند.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Brazil will not go on being the fief that you have been exploiting for centuries. That’s what the army is for. To bring about national unity”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“In the caravan that went up and down and around the burning-hot backlands”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“¿Tienen algo que ver con los intereses de los humildes las querellas retóricas de los partidos burgueses?”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, La Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo

“Ahora sabía que el amor era también una exaltación de la piel, un encandilamiento de los sentidos, un vértigo que parecía completarla”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“La tierra, cansada después de tantos siglos de producir plantas, animales y de dar abrigo al hombre, pediría al Padre poder descansar.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Y es el sufrimiento del alma, sobre todo, el que hace buenos a los buenos”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Van a morir muchos pero no hay que llorar, la muerte es dicha para el buen creyente.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Es más fácil imaginar la muerte de una persona que la de cien o mil —murmuró el barón—. Multiplicado, el sufrimiento se vuelve abstracto.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, La guerra del fin del mundo

“No, life had ceased to be logical, and therefore nothing was absurd. It was life: one had to accept it as it was or kill oneself.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“Escrevo de uma aldeia cujo nome não deveis saber, uma terra onde as servidões morais e físicas das mulheres são extremas, pois são oprimidas pelo patrão, pelo pai, pelos irmãos e pelo marido. Aqui, o latifundiário escolhe as esposas dos seus próximos e as mulheres são agredidas em plena rua por pais irascíveis ou maridos bêbedos, perante a indiferença geral. Um motivo de reflexão, companheiros: ter a certeza de que a revolução não suprima apenas a exploração do homem pelo homem, mas, também, a da mulher pelo homem e estabeleça, ao mesmo tempo que a igualdade de classes, a de sexos.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, La guerra del fin del mundo