Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, a…

Jorge Luis Borges
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Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1964). Dreamtigers, p.21, University of Texas Press
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1964). Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
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Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1964). Dreamtigers, p.21, University of Texas Press

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