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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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There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
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Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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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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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.
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Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?
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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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A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
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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.
Known for:
The Last Days of Mankind (1919)
In these great times
Dicta and contradicta
Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths
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