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Jorge Antonio Sánchez Rivera

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Para despistar a los curiosos

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Trópico Amargo

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Jorge’s Quotes

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

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“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: pride, reading, writers

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“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: love, time

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“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: dreams, life

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