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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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