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

Bertolt Brecht

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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Mean World
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice

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

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