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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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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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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 unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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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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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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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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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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