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There 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.

Bertolt Brecht

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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

There 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.

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There 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.

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