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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Karl Kraus
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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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Family life is an encroachment on private life.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
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