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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
Essayist
Journalist
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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They judge lest they be judged.
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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 is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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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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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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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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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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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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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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