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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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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Fall Men Tiles
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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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Dark Inspirational Singing
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

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