“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

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