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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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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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I am not for women but against men.
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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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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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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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They judge lest they be judged.
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