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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. …

Bertolt Brecht

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain

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 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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