What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTSchoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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But something’s missing.
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