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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Bertolt Brecht

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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

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