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The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.
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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Bad literature is a form of treason.
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When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.
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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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An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.
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If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.
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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
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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On the whole, love comes with the speed of light separation, with that of sound.
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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
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Poetry is what is gained in translation.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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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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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
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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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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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Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on West-Running Brook.
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If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.
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There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
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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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I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.
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