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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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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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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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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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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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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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