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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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
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
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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 once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

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