Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs …

Jorge Luis Borges
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1999). Everything and Nothing, p.75, New Directions Publishing
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