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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Bertolt Brecht

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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long

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