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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

One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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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Gone Love Sad Taste
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War

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