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Ricardo Güiraldes

Argentine writer (1886-1927).

Born February 13th, 1889 in Buenos Aires. [ref]

Died October 8th, 1927 at 38 years old in Paris (lymphoma). [ref]

Occupations
poet, writer

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel