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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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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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They judge lest they be judged.
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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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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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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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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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You don't even live once.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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