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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Men Show Traded
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
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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Bird Perspective Squirrels
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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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Finest Spoil
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
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
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive

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