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Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
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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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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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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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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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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 writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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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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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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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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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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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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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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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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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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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
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