Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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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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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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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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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