“I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges, book The Library of Babel

"The Library of Babel" (1941); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)

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

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