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Jorge Luis Borges

“I cannot combine some characters

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which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology.”

Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
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