I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Right is its own defense.
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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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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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