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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
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
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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Art Discovery Reality
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
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
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

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