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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
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

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