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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
Bertolt Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht
Age: 58 †
Born: 1898
Born: February 10
Died: 1956
Died: August 14
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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
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
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If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
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A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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The right to happiness is fundamental men live so little time and die alone.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.
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Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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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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