Brodsky

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“What should I say about life? That’s it’s long and abhors transparence.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)