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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.

Bertolt Brecht

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust

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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