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" I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. "
Karl Kraus
Up
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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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" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
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" The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. "
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" If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. "
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" Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. "
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" 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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" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. "
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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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" Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. "
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" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "
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" Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. "
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" I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. "
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" The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. "
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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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Child
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" Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. "
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" Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. "
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" Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. "
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Than
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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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