# Quote — Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

> On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence. He was dark, dried up, diminutive, and seemed outside time, situated in eternity.

- Author: [Jorge Luis Borges](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jorge-luis-borges.md)
- Book: [Ficciones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jorge-luis-borges/ficciones.md)
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