Верь своей боли. Believe your pain. Избранные речи

Иосиф Бродский

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Juliett_Bookbinge18 августа 2022 г.
Когда вас одолевает скука, предайтесь ей. Пусть она вас задавит; погрузитесь, достаньте до дна. Вообще, с неприятностями правило таково: чем скорей вы коснетесь дна, тем быстрее выплывете на поверхность.
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chlrm23 января 2023 г.
there is no embrace in this world that won’t finally unclasp.
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chlrm23 января 2023 г.
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the Holy Book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
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ivankozhyshniy10 апреля 2024 г.
зло пускает корни, когда кому-то приходит мысль, что он лучше другого
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ivankozhyshniy10 апреля 2024 г.
у страдания часто есть оттенок нарциссизма
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chlrm23 января 2023 г.
Try to build and treat your vocabulary the way you are to treat your checking account.
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The purpose is to enable you to articulate yourselves as fully and precisely as possible; in a word, the purpose is your balance. For the accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis. On a daily basis, a lot is happening to one’s psyche; the mode of one’s expression, however, often remains the same. Articulation lags behind experience. That doesn’t go well with the psyche. Sentiments, nuances, thoughts, perceptions that remain nameless, unable to be voiced and dissatisfied with approximations, get pent up within an individual and may lead to a psychological explosion or implosion.
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chlrm23 января 2023 г.
the stars know more about gravity, as well as about loneliness, than you do; coveting eyes that they are.
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chlrm23 января 2023 г.
try to respect life not only for its amenities but for its hardships, too. They are a part of the game, and what’s good about a hardship is that it is not a deception. Whenever you are in trouble, in some scrape, on the verge of despair or in despair, remember: that’s life speaking to you in the only language it knows well. In other words, try to be a little masochistic: without a touch of masochism, the meaning of life is not complete.
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chlrm23 января 2023 г.
What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.
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chlrm23 января 2023 г.
don’t allow an event, however unpleasant or momentous, to claim any more time than it took for it to occur.
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