I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end. Jorge Luis Borges
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  1. I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.
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