Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTTo live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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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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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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First the grub, then the morals.
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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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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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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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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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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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