“The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

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

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“The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.”

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