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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons

Bertolt Brecht

What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders

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