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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.

Karl Kraus

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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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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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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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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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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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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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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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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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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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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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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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