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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.

Jorge Luis Borges
Men, Years, Water
Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.21, Grove Press
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.