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In the contradiction lies the hope.

Bertolt Brecht

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

In the contradiction lies the hope.

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