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

Karl Kraus

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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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Jicin
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Success
Comes
Littles
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People

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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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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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Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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A cigar, said the altruist, a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around mine is always lit.
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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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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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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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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
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Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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