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" If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. "
Karl Kraus
Lies
Reporter
Life
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" Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. "
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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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" The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. "
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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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" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
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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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" No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. "
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" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. "
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" Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. "
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" Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. "
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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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" I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. "
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" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
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" Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? "
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" Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. "
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" Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. "
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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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