Jorge Luis Borges Quote

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"Être avec toi et ne pas être avec toi est la seule façon que j'ai de mesurer le temps."

Translations

“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing”

Jorge Luis Borges

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