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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
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Cosmetics
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Women

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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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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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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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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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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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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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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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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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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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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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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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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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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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