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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Kind Silence Tree
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

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