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Bertolt Brecht quotes

Deutsch Poet, Playwright, Writer February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956

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Bertolt Brecht quote: "War is like love; it always finds a way."
War is like love; it always finds a way. Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht quote: "What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only..."
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. Bertolt Brecht
Pleasures. First look from morning's window. The rediscovered book. Fascinated faces. Snow, the change of the seasons. The newspaper. The dog. Dialectics. Showering, swimming. Old music. Comfortable shoes. Comprehension. New music. Writing, planting. Traveling. Singing. Being friendly Bertolt Brecht
Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question needs no explanation. However frequently recurrent, modest, vulgar it may be it will now be be labeled as something unusual. Bertolt Brecht
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"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. Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness..."
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels. Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Poverty makes you sad as well as wise."
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Bertolt Brecht
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. 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. Bertolt Brecht
Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the name of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock? And Babylon, many times demolished. Who raised it up so many times? In what houses Of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live? Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished Did the masons go? Great Rome Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, Only palaces for its inhabitants? Even... Bertolt Brecht
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. Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the..."
Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"! Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Why be a man when you can be a success?"
Why be a man when you can be a success? Bertolt Brecht

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