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" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
Karl Kraus
Idea
Surprised
Action
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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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Feeling
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" Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. "
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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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" I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. "
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" Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. "
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" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
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" Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? "
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Children
Soldier
" 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
Distance
" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
Karl Kraus
Law
Sorry
Most
" No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. "
Karl Kraus
Express
Ideas
Ability
" Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. "
Karl Kraus
Well
Some
Sexuality
" Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. "
Karl Kraus
Because
Something
Nothing
" Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. "
Karl Kraus
Through
Learn
Life
" 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. "
Karl Kraus
Say
Well
Very
" To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. "
Karl Kraus
Same
Men
Equal
" Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. "
Karl Kraus
Earthquake
Stupidity
Match
" The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. "
Karl Kraus
Span
Attention
Culture
" A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. "
Karl Kraus
Woman
Cannot
Ugly
" 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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Old
New
Style
" Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. "
Karl Kraus
Corruption
Individual
Morals
" Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. "
Karl Kraus
Thieves
Dog
Which
" There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. "
Karl Kraus
Never
Anything
Him
" The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. "
Karl Kraus
Shells
Fire
Trouble
" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. "
Karl Kraus
Answer
Someone
Writer
" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
Karl Kraus
Epic
Masculine
Passion
" I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. "
Karl Kraus
Him
Terrible
Walk
" Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. "
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Human Nature
Crime
Justice
" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
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Man
Woman
Heart