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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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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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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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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 woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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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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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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