Karl Kraus - Man 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
The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.

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True jealously wants not only fidelity, but the proof of fidelity as an imaginable situation. A jealous man is not content with his beloved not being unfaithful. Precisely that which he is not doing does not leave him in peace. But since there is no proving what is not done and the jealous man insists on proof, he ends up settling on proof of unfaithfulness.

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A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct.

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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 round, mine is always lit."

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A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

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Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

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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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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

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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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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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