As crimes pile up, they become invisible.
— Bertolt Brecht
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He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
--Bertolt Brecht
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Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht playing chess
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I must know who won. (Looks like they're even on pieces; Benjamin castled first even though he was black.)
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Benjamin on playing chess with Brecht, in a letter to Gretel Adorno: 'A game or two of chess, which ought to introduce some variety into our lives, take on the colour and the monotony of the gray strait, for I seldom win.'
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