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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
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

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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