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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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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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You don't even live once.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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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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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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A cigar, said the altruist, a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around mine is always lit.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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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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