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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
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
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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 like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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