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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertolt Brecht

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken 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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May

What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

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