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The fate of man is man.

Bertolt Brecht

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders

The fate of man is man.

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