What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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One must live well to know what living is.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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