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

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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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Poet
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Writer
Jicin
Something
Comprehends
Perfectly
Clear
Art

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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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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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You don't even live once.
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
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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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If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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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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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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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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