“Even the wolf has its moments of weakness, in which it sides with the lamb and thinks: I hope it runs away.”

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

"El mismo lobo tiene momentos de debilidad, en que se pone del lado del cordero y piensa: Ojalá que huya."
Guirnaldas con amores, 1959.

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«El mismo lobo tiene momentos de debilidad, en que se pone del lado del cordero y piensa: Ojalá que huya».

Bioy Casares, 1959, 41
Citas de sus libros, Guirnalda con amores (1959)
Variant: "El mismo lobo tiene momentos de debilidad, en que se pone del lado del cordero y piensa: Ojalá que huya."

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Argentine novelist 1914–1999

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