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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

John Stuart Mill


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🦋 Wanderer there is no path

O.M.G: look at the 77th quatrain (as numbered in this translation) of the Rubáiyát (written 800 years or more before the good Machado's birth):

Todos los seres tratan de recorrer el camino del conocimiento:
Aún lo buscan unos; otros afirman que ya lo encontraron.
Sin embargo, aún no se ha levantado la voz que un día clamará:
"No hay camino; no hay sendero".


Everyone tries to walk in the path of knowledge:
Some are still searching, some claim that they have found it.
But the voice has not yet spoken up which one day will cry out:
"There is no road; there is no path."

posted evening of Sunday, February 9th, 2014

Another "path" reference is in quatrain 14: "No anda seguro por el Sendero el hombre que no ha recogido el fruto de la verdad. -- The man who has not reaped the fruit of truth will not walk easy down the Path."

posted evening of February 10th, 2014 by J

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