Fictions exist fact. one life, desires fantasies demand a thousand liv — Mario Vargas Llosa, Temptation Impossible: Victor Hugo “Les Miserables”

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Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss between what we are and what we would like to be has to be bridged somehow. That was why fictions were born: so that, through living this vicarious, transient, precarious, but also passionate and fascinating life that fiction transports us to, we can incorporate the impossible into the possible and our existence can be both reality and unreality, history and fable, concrete life and marvellous adventure.

Mario Vargas Llosa, The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables"

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