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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
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
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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Change Nothing Reality Representation
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart

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