Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
BERTOLT BRECHTLove 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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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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