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Talent is often a defect in character.

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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Jicin
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Defects
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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