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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to 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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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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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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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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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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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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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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