"He cometido el peor pecado que uno puede cometer. No he sido feliz."
— Jorge Luis Borges

January 1, 1970

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I have committed the worst sin that can be committed. I have not been happy. — "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