"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
"All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
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Source: Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983. Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1984.
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