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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Bertolt Brecht

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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy

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