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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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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Fall Rain Summer
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

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