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

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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