Quote by Joseph Brodsky
The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. - Jo

The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. – Joseph Brodsky

Other quotes by Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky

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Poetry
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside. – Joseph Brodsky

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Change
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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. – Edwin Powell Hubble

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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. – G.R. Elton, The Practice of History

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History

The Communist regime didnt consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. – Kathryn Bigelow

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History

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