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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
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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