“All that is left is your scar, no doubt the least valuable of your distinguishing marks. Today you frequent nothing but prison cells, and within the foreseeable future no place at all …”

—  Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

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German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898–1956

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