The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about. (Joseph Brodsky)

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Joseph Brodsky

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