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Jorge Luis Borges

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?De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad.
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How else can one threaten, other than with death? The interesting, the original thing, would be to threaten someone with immortality.
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Borges, Biografía Verbal (1988) by Roberto Alifano, p. 23

 
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