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

Bertolt Brecht

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
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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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Storm Tree Violent
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
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
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent

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

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