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I am not for women but against men.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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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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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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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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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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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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