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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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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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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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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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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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