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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
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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 poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
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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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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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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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There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
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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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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
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