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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
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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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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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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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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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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