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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
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
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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Confusion Humanity Nature
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

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