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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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An aphorism is never exactly true it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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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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There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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You don't even live once.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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Medicine: Your money and your life!
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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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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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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