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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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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Men Struggle Years
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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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Able Strong Theatre
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

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