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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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An aphorism is never exactly true it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
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