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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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I am not for women but against men.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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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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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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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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Family life is an encroachment on private life.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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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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They judge lest they be judged.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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