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Adolfo Bioy Casares

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"Llega un momento en la vida en que, haga uno lo que haga, solamente aburre. Queda entonces una manera de recuperar el prestigio: morir."
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There comes a moment in your life when, no matter what you do, you bore everybody else. There is only one way to get back the lost prestige. Dying.
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Fuente: Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.

 
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