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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded

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