Jorge Luis Borges: I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies,

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, — Jorge Luis Borges

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

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