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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.

Bertolt Brecht

The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

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