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In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.
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 got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.
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Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.
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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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Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
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For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
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Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.
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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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On the whole, love comes with the speed of light separation, with that of sound.
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Every life has a file, if you will.
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The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
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A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward whether he is an honest man or given to lies whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.
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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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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
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In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse.
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Bad literature is a form of treason.
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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.
Joseph Brodsky
The Constitution doesn't mention rain.
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