“There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges

"Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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