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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
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It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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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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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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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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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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