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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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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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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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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
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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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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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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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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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