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Jorge Luis Borges

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

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