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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht

When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
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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Art Embrace Hands War
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

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