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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
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
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty 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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

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