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When you name yourself, you always name another.

Bertolt Brecht

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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