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Joseph Brodsky

"Man is what he reads."

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"Man is what he reads."

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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

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"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."
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"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
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"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
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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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"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
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