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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

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