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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
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
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 kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

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