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The Threepenny Opera Quotes

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it. - Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera Quotes)

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.[Aber ich habe herausgebracht, daß die Besitzenden der Erde das Elend zwar anstiften können, aber sehen können sie das Elend nicht.]

Source:(Penguin Books, ed. 2007), Act III, Scene 7, Page 61
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Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera Quotes)
  • Book: The Threepenny Opera
  • Writer: Bertolt Brecht
  • Genre: Plays
  • Published: 1928
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