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Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

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The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble savage, of an inherently good human nature hampered by bad institutions, of the ideal state, of social justice and so forth - none of these originated or blossomed on the banks of the Volga.

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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

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I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

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Bad politics make for bad morals.

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

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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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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.

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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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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 24th, 1940

Died: January 28th, 1996

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