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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
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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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
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For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
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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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Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
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I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
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Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.
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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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Every life has a file, if you will.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.
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As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
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Bad literature is a form of treason.
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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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A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre the realization of it, for destiny.
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I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
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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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In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.
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Man is what he reads.
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