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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

The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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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Men Struggle Years
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice

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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