“In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges, book Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
Variant: In his lifetime, he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen; once dead, he is not even the ghost he was then.

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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