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A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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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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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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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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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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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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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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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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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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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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