Jorge Luis Borges: El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.

El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres — Jorge Luis Borges

El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.

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I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it' — Abraham Lincoln
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry — Alexander Pope
Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It is itself — Karl Marx