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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

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