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

Bertolt Brecht

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

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