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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay

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