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I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness


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This page presents the quote "I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness". Author of this quote is Jorge Luis Borges. This quote is about tenderness, possibility, words, feelings,.