"Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose.……" — Mario Vargas Llosa
"Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."
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38 Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
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Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
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Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in…
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The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an…
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I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
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