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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.

Bertolt Brecht

In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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
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
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

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