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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

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat

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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