Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
BERTOLT BRECHTGo make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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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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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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