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One must live well to know what living is.

Bertolt Brecht

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain

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