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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

Bertolt Brecht

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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men 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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support

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