= The Library of Babel
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"The Library of Babel" is a short story written by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, first published in 1941 in his collection "The Garden of Forking Paths." The story describes a fictional library that contains an infinite number of books, each consisting of all possible combinations of letters and characters. In this library, there exists a vast collection of texts that covers every possible permutation of a given set of symbols.
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