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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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When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.
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I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse the dark inside, or the darkness out.
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The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.
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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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A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
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For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
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I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.
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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 the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.
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There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
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When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.
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Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
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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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