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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
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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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We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
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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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You don't even live once.
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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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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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It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
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There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
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