"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
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Source: Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.114, New Directions Publishing
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