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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
Literary Critic
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Jicin
Medicine
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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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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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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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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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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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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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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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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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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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Talent is often a defect in character.
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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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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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They judge lest they be judged.
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It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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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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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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