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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
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Jicin
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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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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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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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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You don't even live once.
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