Jorge Luis Borges Quote

His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.


"The Man on the Threshold", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. "The South" in Ficciones" (1944)


His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.

His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.

His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.

His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.