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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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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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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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Family life is an encroachment on private life.
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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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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing 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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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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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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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
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