Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

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It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the...

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and...

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and...

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me;...

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me;...