Freedom is not simply the absence of chains. It is the capac... - Mario Vargas Llosa

"Freedom is not simply the absence of chains. It is the capacity to choose who we want to be."

Mario Vargas Llosa Freedom

Novelist Peruvian Born 1936 (age 90)

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