Karl Kraus - Love Quotes

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What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man.

Karl Kraus
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

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Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.

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A "seducer" who boasts of initiating women into the mystery of love is like a stranger who arrives at a railroad station and offers to show the sights to a tourist guide.

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

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Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

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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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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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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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