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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

Bertolt Brecht

What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

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