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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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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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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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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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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 woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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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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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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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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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
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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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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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