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One Quotes by Joseph Brodsky
- 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…
- Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book,…
- Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick…
- For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
- 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…
- The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
- Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your…
- 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…
- Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
- Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up…
- All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.
- ...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
- Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the…
- If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...
- There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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