Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

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If you don't have fun, you don't have a show.

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If you join the rat race you're in the race of rats.

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For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

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In the contradiction lies the hope.

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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

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