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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
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
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish

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