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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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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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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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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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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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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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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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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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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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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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