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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 mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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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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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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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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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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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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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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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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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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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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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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