Quotes by Karl Kraus

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  • Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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  • A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
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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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  • Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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  • Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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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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  • Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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  • The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
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  • Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
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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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  • The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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  • Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
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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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  • Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
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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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