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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Bertolt Brecht

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
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
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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Emperor Finest Ruined
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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Kind Silence Tree
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
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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Latter Stupidity Workers
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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Order Reality Tables
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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