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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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Poet
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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