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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, prologue (1944).
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Bertolt Brecht
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Old Man, right (sighing): Death to the fascists!
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Bertolt Brecht (The Caucasian Chalk Circle)
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When the sharks the sharks devour
Little fishes have their hour.
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Bertolt Brecht (The Caucasian Chalk Circle)
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Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"!
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Bertolt Brecht (The Caucasian Chalk Circle)
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When the houses of the great collapse
Many little people are slain.
Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty
Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging
wain
Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.
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Bertolt Brecht (The Caucasian Chalk Circle)
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O blindness of the great!
They go their way like gods,
Great over bent backs,
Sure of hired fists,
Trusting in the power
Which has lasted so long.
But long is not forever.
O change from age to age!
Thou hope of the people!
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Bertolt Brecht (The Caucasian Chalk Circle)
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Four generals
Set our for Iran.
With the first one, war did not agree.
The second never won a victory.
For the third the weather never was right.
For the fourth the men would never fight.
Four generals
And not a single man!
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Bertolt Brecht
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Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El regalo más grande que les puedes dar a los demás es el ejemplo de tu propia vida" (Bertolt Brecht)
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Bertolt Brecht (The Caucasian Chalk Circle)