In the contradiction lies the hope.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Right is its own defense.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The fate of man is man.
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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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