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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

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