The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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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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Eats first, morals after.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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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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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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