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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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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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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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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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