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

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel

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