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I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 24
Died: 1986
Died: March 26
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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