“ Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse ”
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“ Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse ”
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“ Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
“ Love as content is in the habit of limiting formal patterns. The same goes for faith. After all, there are only so many adequate manifestations for truly strong sentiments; which, in the end, is what explains rituals. ”
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“ ...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. ”
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“ ... Now to die of grief would mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomers are unwelcome, particularly in the future. ... ”
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“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ”
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“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ”
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“ I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. ”
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“ It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. ”
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“ In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself — as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony — those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror… ”
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“ I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul. ”
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“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ”
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“ What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. ”
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“ It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. ”
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“ What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. ”
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“ No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly. ”
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“ No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly. ”
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“ The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ”
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“ The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. ”
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“ What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. ”
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