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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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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Good Knows Rapture Things
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
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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Government Party People
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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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Light Planning Shining
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

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