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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.

Bertolt Brecht

For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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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Gone Love Sad Taste
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles

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