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" Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets. "

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" An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible. "

" I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there. "

" I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic. "

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" I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination. "

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" Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable. "

" No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term. "

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" Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. "

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" 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. "

" Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. "

" The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. "

" The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. "

" Venice is eternity itself. "

" Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language. "

" The mechanics of love imply some sort of bridge between the sensual and the spiritual, sometimes to the point of deification; the notion of an afterlife is implicit not only in our couplings, but also in our separations. "

" A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth. "

" Bad politics make for bad morals. "

" What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. "

" 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. "

" After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. "