When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHTLife is short and so is money.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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The fate of man is man.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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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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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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