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

Bertolt Brecht

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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy

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