You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHTDo not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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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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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Life is short and so is money.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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