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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
Essayist
Journalist
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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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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If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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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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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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