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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

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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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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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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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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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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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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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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