Jorge Luis Borges: "The flattery of posterity is not…"

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La flatterie de la postérité ne vaut guère plus que la flatterie contemporaine qui ne vaut rien

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“Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone”

Jorge Luis Borges

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