“A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.”

— Ernesto Sábato

Ernesto Sábato in: Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, (2007)

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Argentine writer, painter and physicist 1911–2011

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Ernesto Sábato
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“A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.”

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