We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

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We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

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