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Family life is an encroachment on private life.

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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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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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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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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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Medicine: Your money and your life!
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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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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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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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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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