“There is a flavor that our time (perhaps surfeited by the clumsy imitations of professional patriots) does not usually perceive without some suspicion: the fundamental flavor of the heroic.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges , book Other Inquisitions

Other Inquisitions (1952), The Modesty of History

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

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