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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
Essayist
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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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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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