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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
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I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
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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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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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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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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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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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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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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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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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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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