Karl Kraus
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Many things that I am experiencing I already remember.
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Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
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To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs.
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Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
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One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
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Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
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The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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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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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.