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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht

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.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
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 don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

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