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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.
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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I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.
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Man is what he reads.
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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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A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
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Poetry is what is gained in translation.
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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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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
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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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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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Bad literature is a form of treason.
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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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When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.
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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
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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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