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 condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.
I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out. - Joseph Brodsky
I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.
- Joseph Brodsky
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 t… - Joseph Brodsky
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 t…
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, somethin… - Joseph Brodsky
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, somethin…
A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious… - Joseph Brodsky
A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious…
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I b… - Joseph Brodsky
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I b…
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
For darkness restores what light cannot repair. - Joseph Brodsky
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone. - Joseph Brodsky
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse - Joseph Brodsky
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
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