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Medicine: Your money and your life!

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
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Medicine
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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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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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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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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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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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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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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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