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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

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean

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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