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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Vienna
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Culture

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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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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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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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I am not for women but against men.
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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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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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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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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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