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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Karl Kraus

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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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Jicin
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Family life is an encroachment on private life.
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There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
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It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
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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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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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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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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.
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I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
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