What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTNo one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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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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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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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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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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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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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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