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One must live well to know what living is.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
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
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet

One must live well to know what living is.

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