"Do everything to avoid to ascribe to themselves the status of the victim!" Great letter from Joseph Brodsky

website publishes the most memorable pieces of the famous speech of Joseph Brodsky, with which he spoke to the graduates of the University of Michigan in December 1988. In this epistle university graduates great poet passed to the younger generation all that is considered the most important in life. < «Do not forget to extend your vocabulary and to treat him the way you handle your bank account.
«Every day the human soul is changing a lot, but the mode of expression is often the same. To avoid this, not necessarily turn into a bookworm. You just have to buy a dictionary and read it every day, and sometimes - and a book of poems. They are cheap enough, but even the most expensive among them are much smaller than a single visit to a psychiatrist ».

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"The world is not perfect; Golden Age has never been and never will. The only thing that will happen to the world - it will be more, that is crowded, not increasing in size. How is fair to the man you have chosen, nor promised to share the cake, it does not grow in size; portions necessarily become smaller.
"Try to be humble. Even now we have too much, and very soon there will be many more. This scramble for a place under the sun certainly is due to others who will not climb. What you have to step on someone's foot, does not mean that you have to stand on their shoulders.
"If you want to become rich or famous or both, and others - good luck! < Not to give it entirely.
«Do everything to avoid to ascribe to themselves the status of the victim.
"In general, try to respect the life, not only for its charms, but also for its difficulties. They are part of the game, and are good in that they are not cheating. Whenever you are desperate and on the verge of despair, when you have trouble or difficulty, remember: this is the life speaks to you in the only language she knows well ».
"The world in which you are going to start, does not have a good reputation. This is not a nice place, as you will soon discover, and I doubt that it would be much nicer to the time when you leave. However, this is the only world available: there is no alternative, and if it existed, there is no guarantee that it would be much better than this ».

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"What do your enemies, gets its value or importance of how you react to it. is the most important


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