Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play …

Joseph Brodsky
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Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. ✨ Joseph Brodsky (2011). On Grief And Reason: Essays, p.145, Penguin UK
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