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Saturday, November 19, 2005
Avoidance
Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977), I, 275:
Human nature surrenders more easily to the avoidable than to the unavoidable.
La humanidad se resigna más fácilmente a lo evitable que a lo inevitable.