The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.


"The Elderly Lady", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.