The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen 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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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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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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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