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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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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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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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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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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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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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