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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

Bertolt Brecht

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

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