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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Order Reality Tables
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

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