Talk:Joseph Brodsky

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 * The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.


 * There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.


 * Unbelief is blindness, but more often piggishness.

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 * There was Lenin, looking like a cherub in his blonde curls. Then Lenin in his twenties and thirties, bald and uptight.


 * There isn’t an executioner who isn’t scared of turning victim one day, nor is there the sorriest victim who would not acknowledge (if only to himself) a mental ability to become an executioner.