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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war

Bertolt Brecht

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
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

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