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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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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 fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes a man.
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.
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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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The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.
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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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How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
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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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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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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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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
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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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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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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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