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

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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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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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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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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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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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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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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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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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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