It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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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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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
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If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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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.
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