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Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

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

"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories."

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

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

"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."

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

"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."

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