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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons

Bertolt Brecht

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

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