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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Bertolt Brecht

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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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Men Real Screen Voice
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
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
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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