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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
Playwright
Poet
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Jicin
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Family
Life

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We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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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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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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They judge lest they be judged.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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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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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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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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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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