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That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentinian author. Evaristo Carriego, ch. 2 (1930).

A biographical study of a poet of Buenos Aires.

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