The quote in the question is from Mario Vargas Llosa, from his book The Truth of Lies.

The sentences

“I will offer a few arguments in favor of the view of literature as one of the most primary and necessary undertakings of the mind, an irreplaceable activity for the formation of citizens in a modern and democratic society, a society of free individuals.”

and

“Literature has been, and will continue to be, as long as it exists, one of the common denominators of human experience through which human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other, no matter how different their professions, their life plans, their geographical and cultural locations, their personal circumstances.”

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