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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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Jicin
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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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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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They judge lest they be judged.
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
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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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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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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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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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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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