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"In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?"
Jorge Luis BorgesThe execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. T — Jorge Luis Borges
"The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables."
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers,
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