“Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.”
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"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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