Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.Plato
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.”
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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