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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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But something’s missing.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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