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Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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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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If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
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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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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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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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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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Family life is an encroachment on private life.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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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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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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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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