I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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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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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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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 right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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