English translations of the aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez Dávila
November 29, 2010
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The American is not intolerable because he believes he is important individually, but because he possesses, insofar as he is an American, the solution to every problem.
El norteamericano no resulta insoportable porque se crea individualmente importante, sino porque posee, en cuanto norteamericano, la solución de todo problema.
The original Spanish is:
ReplyDeleteEl norteamericano no resulta insoportable porque se crea individualmente importante, sino porque posee, en cuanto norteamericano, la solución de todo problema.