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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

Bertolt Brecht

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
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
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

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