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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

Bertolt Brecht

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear 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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

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