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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Culture
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Destroying
Missions
Presses
Press
Spread
Literature
Attention
Span

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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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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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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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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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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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