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Edgar Allan Poe
SOBRE EL ARTE DE LA VENGANZA
Ustedes, sin embargo, que conocen muy bien mi alma, no pensarán que proferí amenaza alguna. Me vengaría a la larga; esto quedaba definitivamente decidido, pero, por lo mismo que era definitivo, excluía toda idea de riesgo. No sólo debía castigar, sino castigar con impunidad. No se repara un agravio cuando el castigo alcanza al reparador, y tampoco es reparado si el vengador no es capaz de mostrarse como tal a quien lo ha ofendido.
You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled —but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
Poe / The Cask of Amontillado
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