"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
-Joseph Brodsky
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.“
-Joseph Brodsky
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"Man is what he reads."
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"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."
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"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
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"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."
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"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
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