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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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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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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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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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They judge lest they be judged.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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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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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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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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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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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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It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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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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