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Joseph Brodsky

"As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history."

-- Joseph Brodsky

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“MySpace is such a weird world to me. I don't have a MySpace account. The stuff that's up there, I didn't set any of it up. Fans set it up.”
“Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?”
“People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)”

Source : Vince Flynn (2013). “Vince Flynn Collectors' Edition #3: Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Protect and Defend”, p.102, Simon and Schuster
“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.”

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.122
“You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t? have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don’t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.”
“That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.”
“somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”
“The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.”

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