“A fool with the mind of a detective is an intelligent fool, a logical fool, the worst kind, because men's logic, far from compensating for their foolishness, only duplicates it, triplicates it, makes it dangerous.”

—  Javier Marías

Un imbécil detectivesco es un imbécil listo, un imbécil lógico, los peores, porque la lógica de los hombres, en vez de compensar su imbecilidad, la duplica y la triplica y la hace ofensiva.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 30

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Un imbécil detectivesco es un imbécil listo, un imbécil lógico, los peores porque la lógica de los hombres en vez de compensar su imbecilidad la duplica y la triplica y la hace ofensiva.

Todas las Almas (1989)
Variant: Un imbécil detectivesco es un imbécil listo, un imbécil lógico, los peores, porque la lógica de los hombres, en vez de compensar su imbecilidad, la duplica y la triplica y la hace ofensiva.

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