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Joseph Brodsky

"Man is what he reads."

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"Man is what he reads."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

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"A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away."

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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."
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"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, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."
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"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
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"For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."
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"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."
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"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
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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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