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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

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

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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. – Daisaku Ikeda

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History

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing theyre whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever theyve got. I cant possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. – David Cronenberg

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History

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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History

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. – Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians

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I do believe at the end of the night when youre with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning. – Liam Neeson

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag

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