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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes: When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
         

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.


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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.



I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.



The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.





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