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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
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A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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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 new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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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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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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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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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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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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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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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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There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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