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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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 the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men

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