"If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore..."

-- Joseph Brodsky

#Empires Quotes #Born Quotes #Aloof Quotes

“The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.”
“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”
“Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.”
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 31, 2015
“I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.”
“The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.”

Source : "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.
“Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.”
“There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple witnesses both on the ground and in the air.”

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