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Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.

— Mario Vargas Llosa Nobel Lecture (2010)

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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.

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

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)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

Simone Weil

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