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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Bertolt Brecht

You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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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Gone Love Sad Taste
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool

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