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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.

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