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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

Bertolt Brecht

He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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

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