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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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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Abuse Kissing Race
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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