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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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  2. I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have love…
  3. I think I understood love better when I had no love.
  4. I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
  5. Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, …
  6. Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a scandinavian tradition; since I was born - August 24, 1899 - they have not been granting it to…
  7. Yo no hablo de venganzas ni perdones, el olvido es la unica venganza y el unico perdon.
  8. Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

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Topics in this quote

  • politics
  • society
  • democracy
  • misuse
  • numbers
  • statistics

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