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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
Joseph Brodsky
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Joseph Brodsky
Age: 55 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 24
Died: 1996
Died: January 25
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St. Petersburg
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky
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In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.
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Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.
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The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
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An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.
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The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.
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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
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Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.
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Man is what he reads.
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The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.
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There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
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I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.
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A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
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For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
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Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it on the contrary, throw it wide open.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.
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My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.
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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
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