"It’s always the same: if someone is against convention his only way of attacking it is by creating another convention, so that when most people are clean-shaven he grows a beard, and when beards are worn he shaves his off. He’s merely changing from one convention to another."
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Jorge Luis Borges in conversation with Rita Guibert, 1968 (Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, pps. 51-52.)
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