All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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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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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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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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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.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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But something’s missing.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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