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" Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. "
Karl Kraus
Thieves
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" When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' "
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" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
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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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" My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. "
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" I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. "
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" Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. "
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" Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. "
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" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
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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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" An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. "
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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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" 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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" Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. "
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" Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. "
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" He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. "
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Praise
Without
" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
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Matrimony
Meanness
" The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. "
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Back
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" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
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Surprised
Action
" 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
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" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
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" There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. "
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Never
Anything
Him
" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
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Opportunity
Slave
Everyone
" Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. "
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Language
Mother
Thought
" The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. "
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Attention
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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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People
" 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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" 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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" Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. "
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