“There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

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