Brodsky

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“It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union.... I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed’s dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)