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One must live well to know what living is.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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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Light Planning Shining
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World

One must live well to know what living is.

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