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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning

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