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

Bertolt Brecht

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
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
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
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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Mean World
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong

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

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