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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
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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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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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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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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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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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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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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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You don't even live once.
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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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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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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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