“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, book Other Inquisitions

"The Meeting in a Dream"
Other Inquisitions (1952)

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

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