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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
Karl Kraus
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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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