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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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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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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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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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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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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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