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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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An aphorism is never exactly true it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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You don't even live once.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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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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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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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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Talent is often a defect in character.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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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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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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