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" I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. "
Karl Kraus
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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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" Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. "
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" Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? "
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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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" 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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" I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. "
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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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" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "
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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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" Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. "
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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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" I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. "
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Affairs
Private
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" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
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Opportunity
Slave
Everyone
" No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. "
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Express
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Ability
" The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. "
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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
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" Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. "
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Pass
Education
Receive
" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
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Martyrdom
Matrimony
Meanness
" 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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Man
Like
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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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Look
Back
Distance
" Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. "
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Then
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" Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. "
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Analysis
Art
" 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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Test
Principle
Lifestyle
" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
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Epic
Masculine
Passion
" 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
" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
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Law
Sorry
Most
" Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. "
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Ideal
Want
Who
" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
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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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See
Lie
World
" Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. "
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