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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

Bertolt Brecht

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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

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