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One must live well to know what living is.

Bertolt Brecht

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust

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