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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.

Bertolt Brecht

What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
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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Bird Perspective Squirrels
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People

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