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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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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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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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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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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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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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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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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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A cigar, said the altruist, a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around mine is always lit.
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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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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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