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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

Bertolt Brecht

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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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 have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May

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