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It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

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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
Faith
Reality
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Uplifting
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Newspaper
Newspapers
Lose
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