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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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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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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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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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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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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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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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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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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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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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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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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
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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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