"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
"The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things."
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Source: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, 1998.
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