HourglassFR

270 karma · joined December 3, 2018

“Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their last; there is not a face that is not on the verge of dissolving like a face in a dream. Everything among the mortals has the value of the irretrievable and the perilous. Among the Immortals, on the other hand, every act (and every thought) is the echo of others that preceded it in the past, with no visible beginning, or the faithful presage of others that in the future will repeat it to a vertiginous degree.”

-- Jorge Luis Borges

HourglassFRon No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia

My guess is the editor somehow messed up the per thousand sign ‱

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_point

edit: My bad. Correct character, incorrect description. It is indeed "ten thousand".

HourglassFRon The little black book of scams (2016)

As my brother often says:

In life, you can be greedy, you can be stupid. But you cannot afford beeing greedy and stupid at the same time.