“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
“The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends”
"The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean" (1940)
Context: The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends;
Better lie up in the mountain here
Four or five centuries,
While the stars go over the lonely ocean...
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