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Women are the tax we pay for pleasure.

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

Las mujeres son el impuesto que pagamos por el placer.

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Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, A Russian Doll and Other Stories (New York: New Directions, 1992) p. 69

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