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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.

Bertolt Brecht

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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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Criminals Doe Lying
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.

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