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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

Bertolt Brecht
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We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs
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We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

Frank Wedekind
Frank Wedekind
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Ernst Toller
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To improve man - that's the beginning of all terror. Religion founders, totalitarians, self-righteous playwrights, ideologues, they always want the new man, the better one.

Rolf Hochhuth
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When I hear the word "culture"... I reach for my pistol.

Hanns Johst
Hanns Johst
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It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger
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Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Gustav Freytag

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