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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
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Spectral
Synthesis
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
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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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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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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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