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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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There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
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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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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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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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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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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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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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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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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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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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They judge lest they be judged.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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