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" An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. "
Karl Kraus
Catching
Feeling
Idea
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" The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. "
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" No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. "
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" A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. "
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" A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. "
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" Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. "
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" Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. "
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" To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. "
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" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
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Slave
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" Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. "
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" I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. "
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" I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. "
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Private
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" Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. "
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Skill
Time
" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
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Martyrdom
Matrimony
Meanness
" He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. "
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Will
Praise
Without
" The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. "
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Span
Attention
Culture
" Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. "
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Language
Mother
Thought
" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "
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Does
Than
Means
" My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. "
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Than
Unconscious
More
" I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. "
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Him
Terrible
Walk
" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
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Law
Sorry
Most
" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
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Mental Illness
Mental
Illness
" The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. "
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Shells
Fire
Trouble
" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "
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Work
Time
People
" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
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Idea
Surprised
Action
" There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. "
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Shoe
More
Sun
" Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. "
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Thieves
Dog
Which
" If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. "
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Reporter
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" It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. "
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" Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? "
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Children
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