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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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Poet
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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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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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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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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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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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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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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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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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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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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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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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I am not for women but against men.
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