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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Bertolt Brecht

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar

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