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"The purpose determines the style ... and the worst thing you can do is to hold on to something that no longer has a purpose because it was once beautiful." Bertolt Brecht

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"A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall." Jean Stafford

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"The smell of revolution is a perfume made of stable manure." 

This is what is written in Heiner Müller's "Auftrag". The title plays on the verse "Memories of a revolution" in the subtitle. For believers, Müller was a communist to fear. After a performance of "Auftrag" in Lyon, the communist critic immediately committed suicide.

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