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Five Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
- Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a…
- I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for…
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