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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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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