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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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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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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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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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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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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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