“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

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

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