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In the contradiction lies the hope.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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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Criminals Doe Lying
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar

In the contradiction lies the hope.

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