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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

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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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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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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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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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Family life is an encroachment on private life.
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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