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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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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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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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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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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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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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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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