“El prófugo espera la libertad. Entonces los mulatos nebulosos de Lazarus Morell se transmitían una orden que podía no pasar de una seña y lo libraban de la vista, del oído, del tacto, del día, de la infamia, del tiempo, de los bienhechores, de la misericordia, del aire, de los perros, del universo, de la esperanza, del sudor y de él mismo.”
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Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, poet, and literary critic. His works are known for their unique fantasy and philosophical thinking, which have had a profound impact on 20th-century literature. more
“Soul health turns into whole health. Soul sickness turns into whole sickness.”
“We wait too long for dowries, for the sweat of strangers, to remember our own perfume.”
“People accept the dowry system, by aborting a female child and by rising a male child”
“An impotent beggar believes in begging for money and a potent beggar believes in begging for dowry”