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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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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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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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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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You don't even live once.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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They judge lest they be judged.
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I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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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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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
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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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