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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

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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Literature
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Terrible

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An aphorism is never exactly true it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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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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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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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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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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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 art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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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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