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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
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
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
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
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre

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