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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
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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Block Book Kings
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
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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Art Discovery Reality
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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

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