You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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The fate of man is man.
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But something’s missing.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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