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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

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