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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.

Jorge Luis Borges
Country, Sunset, Firefly
Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.23, New Directions Publishing
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.