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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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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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They judge lest they be judged.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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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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