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No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.
— Joseph Brodsky
Tags: reality, evil, you, life

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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 the language.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Venice is eternity itself.
— Joseph Brodsky
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Bad literature is a form of treason.
— Joseph Brodsky
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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.
— Joseph Brodsky
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