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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
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It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
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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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What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
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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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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
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Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
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I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
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It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.
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What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
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Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?
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It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
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One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.
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A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
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Science is spectrum analysis. Art is photosynthesis.
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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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A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
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One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.
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How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
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Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.
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If the earth had any idea of how afraid the comet is of contact with it.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Born:
April 28, 1874
Died:
June 12, 1936
(aged 62)
Bio:
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics.
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The Last Days of Mankind (1919)
In these great times
Dicta and contradicta
Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths
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