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Talent is often a defect in character.

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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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Jicin
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Defects
Talent
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Character

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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Family life is an encroachment on private life.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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