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I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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Medicine: Your money and your life!
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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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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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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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