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It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Born: May 24, 1940
Died: Jan 28, 1996

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