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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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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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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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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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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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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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