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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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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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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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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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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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