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

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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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 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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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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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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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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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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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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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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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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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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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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How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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