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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Journalist
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Jicin
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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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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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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