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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Work
Lines
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Men
Half
Art
Cannot
Character
Quicksand
Whole
Built
Writing
Line

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