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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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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.
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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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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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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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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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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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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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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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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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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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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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