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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Bertolt Brecht

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People

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