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

Bertolt Brecht

I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted

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