“Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.”

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

"En la vejez todo es triste y ridículo: hasta el miedo a la muerte."
Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.

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Argentine novelist 1914–1999

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