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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
Journalist
Literary Critic
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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I am not for women but against men.
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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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We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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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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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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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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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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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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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
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