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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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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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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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I am not for women but against men.
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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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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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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Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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