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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
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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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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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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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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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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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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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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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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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