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" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
Karl Kraus
Law
Sorry
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" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
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" Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. "
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" Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. "
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