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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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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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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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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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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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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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