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

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

The War at the End of the World (1981)

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

Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.

The Time of the Hero (1963)

He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.

The Time of the Hero (1963)

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