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It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

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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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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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A cigar, said the altruist, a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around mine is always lit.
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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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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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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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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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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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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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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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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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