The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Socrates
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Writer and poet · 1899 – 1986
Argentine short-story writer, essayist and poet whose labyrinthine tales in Ficciones and The Aleph reshaped modern literature. Director of Argentina's National Library, he explored time, infinity and invented worlds with unmatched precision.
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