What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
BERTOLT BRECHTThe war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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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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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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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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But something’s missing.
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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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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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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The fate of man is man.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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