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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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Jicin
Women
Cosmetics
Cosmos
Woman
Science

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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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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 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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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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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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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.
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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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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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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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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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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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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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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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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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