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All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.
All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.
Approximate author period: c. 1942 AD · modern
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- Jorge Luis Borges
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- Approximate author period: c. 1942 AD · modern
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