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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Bertolt Brecht

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste

…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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