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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Bertolt Brecht

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

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