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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
Karl Kraus
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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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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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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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