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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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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Declaring Running War
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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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Belief Men Running
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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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Desire Reality Understanding
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

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