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For someone rather private, for someone who all his life has preferred his private condition to any role of social significance, and who went in this preference rather far — far from his motherland to say the least, for it is better to be a total failure in democracy than a martyr or crème de la crème in tyranny — for such a person to find himself all of a sudden on this rostrum is a somewhat uncomfortable and trying experience.
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Brodsky, J. (1990). Nobel Lecture, 1987. In: Loseff, L., Polukhina, V. (eds) Brodsky’s Poetics and Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20765-7_1
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