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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Bertolt Brecht

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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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Fall Rain Summer
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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