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" Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. "
Karl Kraus
Well
Some
Sexuality
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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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" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
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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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" The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. "
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" Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. "
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" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
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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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" How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. "
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" Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? "
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" I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. "
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" Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. "
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" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "
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" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
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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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Men
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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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" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "
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Than
Means
" Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. "
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" I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. "
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" Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. "
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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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" 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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" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
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Matrimony
Meanness
" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. "
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Someone
Writer
" An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. "
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Feeling
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" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
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