For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
From Joseph Brodsky
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Bad literature is a form of treason.
The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
Venice is eternity itself.
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.
Man is what he reads.
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