Home
Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
The Real History Of Consciousness Starts With One's First Lie.
-Joseph Brodsky
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
The Real History Of Consciousness Starts With
Joseph Brodsky
The Real History Of Consciousness Starts With One's First Lie.
Views: 0
Topic
Lying
Real
Firsts
More From Joseph Brodsky
Were We To Choose Our Leaders On The Basis Of Their Reading Experience And Not Their Political Programs, There Would Be Much Less Grief On Earth. I Believe ... That For Someone Who Has Read A Lot Of Dickens To Shoot His Like In The Name Of An Idea Is Harder Than For Someone Who Has Read No Dickens.
Grief
Believe
Reading
I'm 100 Percent Jewish By Blood, But By Education I'm Nothing. By Affiliation I'm Nothing.
Blood
Affiliation
Percent
I Was Quite Happy In Arkhangelsk.subsequently, I Was Sent To A Village. I Liked It In Its Own Way Because It Sounded To Me Very Much Like The Tradition Of A Hired Man In Any World-class Poem. That's What I Was, A Hired Man. I Was Working For A Collective Farm.
Men
Class
World
A Language Is A More Ancient And Inevitable Thing Than Any State.
Language
Ancient
States
...boredom Speaks The Language Of Time, And It Is To Teach You The Most Valuable Lesson In Your Life--...the Lesson Of Your Utter Insignificance. It Is Valuable To You, As Well As To Those You Are To Rub Shoulders With. 'you Are Finite,' Time Tells You In A Voice Of Boredom, 'and Whatever You Do Is, From My Point Of View, Futile.' As Music To Your Ears, This, Of Course, May Not Count; Yet The Sense Of Futility, Of Limited Significance Even Of Your Best, Most Ardent Actions Is Better Than The Illusion Of Their Consequence And The Attendant Self-satisfaction.
Voice
Self
Views
Trending Author
Charles Kingsley
George Armstrong Custer
Kiri Te Kanawa
Pauline Kael
Kate Bush
Harlan Ellison
Category
Information