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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
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Literary Critic
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Jicin
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You don't even live once.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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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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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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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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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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