Life is short and so is money.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen 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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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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