But something’s missing.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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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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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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