Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (19…

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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1964). Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, p.154, New Directions Publishing
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