"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
"Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details."
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Source: Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.89, New Directions Publishing
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