“Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa, book The War of the End of the World

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Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist 1936

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