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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service

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