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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
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Jicin
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Judgment
Dreams
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Friends
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Dream

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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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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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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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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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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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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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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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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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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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