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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.

Bertolt Brecht

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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
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
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long

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