So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Jorge Luis Borges, After a While
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"La muerte es una vida vivida. La vida es una muerte que viene..."
------- Jorge Luis Borges
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Jorge Luis Borges
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[I am babysitting a toddler. I point at a traffic light.]
Me: Red means stop
Jorge Luis Borges [clambering out of the sewers]: But red doesn't have to mean stop! The act of stopping has no intrinsic redness! All signifiers are radically contingent! There is a gap between signifiers and the things they signify, AND THE GAP ITSELF IS A SIGNIFIER
[I grab a golf club and start beating Borges to death while the toddler screams]
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Jorge Luis Borges, El conquistador.
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Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf
by Jorge Luis Borges
tr. Alastair Reid
At various times, I have asked myself what reasons
moved me to study, while my night came down,
without particular hope of satisfaction,
the language of the blunt-tongued Anglo-Saxons.
Used up by the years, my memory
loses its grip on words that I have vainly
repeated and repeated. My life in the same way
weaves and unweaves its weary history.
Then I tell myself: it must be that the soul
has some secret, sufficient way of knowing
that it is immortal, that its vast, encompassing
circle can take in all, can accomplish all.
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing,
the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Jorge Luis Borges, After a While
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Jorge Luis Borges; You Learn
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Lucian's Library 2
Feel free to suggest never written books you wish you could read.
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Zdravko Dučmelić (1923-1989) — The Sacred Tiger' by Jorge Luis Borges [mixed media, print on paper, 1984]
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So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Jorge Luis Borges, After a While
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Jorge Luis Borges, from Gods & Mortals: Modern Poems on Classics; "The Labyrinth,"
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Jorge Luis Borges, El Enamorado.
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