Jorge Luis Borges
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish.
TRANSLATION:
"I have commited the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy"
WHO: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine writer, essayist and poet and born in Buenos Aires in 1899. He died at the age of 86 in 1986.
WHERE: This quote comes from the poem El remordimiento (The remorse). This poem was included within the book La moneda de hierro (The iron coin).
WHEN: Borges wrote The iron coin in 1976, the same year that started the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983).
Related Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Related Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
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