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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.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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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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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
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If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
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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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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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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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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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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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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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