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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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Dramaturge
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St. Petersburg
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky
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Every
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West
Civilization
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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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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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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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Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
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For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
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When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
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I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
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Poetry is what is gained in translation.
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In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.
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After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.
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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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Bad literature is a form of treason.
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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
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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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If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.
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I'm a bad Jew, a bad Russian, a bad everything.
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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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