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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
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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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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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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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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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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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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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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