"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
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Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer known for his intricate short stories and essays that explore themes of identity, infinity, and labyrinths.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited."
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line"
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book."