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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred

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