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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

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