“I have committed the worst sin that can be committed. I have not been happy.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges

He cometido el peor pecado que uno puede cometer. No he sido feliz.
"El Remordimiento" [Remorse] in La moneda de hierro [The Iron Coin], as quoted in Borges at Eighty : Conversations (1982) edited by Willis Barnstone, also in Hispanic Literature Criticism : Allende to Jiménez (1994), p. 298

Original

He cometido el peor pecado que un hombre puede cometer. No he sido feliz…

Variant: He cometido el peor pecado que uno puede cometer. No he sido feliz.
Source: [Nahson], Daniel. La crítica del mito: Borges y la literatura como sueño de vida, p. 143. Iberoamericana Editorial, 2009. ISBN 9788484893837. https://books.google.es/books?id=vYbBLVvnGt8C&pg=PA143&dq=%C2%ABHe+cometido+el+peor+pecado+que+uno+puede+cometer.+No+he+sido+feliz%C2%BB+borges&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO_6GJmoXkAhUR_BQKHcVCDvIQ6AEIUTAH#v=onepage&q=%C2%ABHe%20cometido%20el%20peor%20pecado%20que%20uno%20puede%20cometer.%20No%20he%20sido%20feliz%C2%BB%20borges&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 15 de agosto de 2019.
Source: «El remordimiento», en La moneda de hierro (1976)

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