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Famous Karl Kraus Quotes
“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”
“A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.”
“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.”
“I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.”
“Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.”
“No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.”
“Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.”
“A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!”
“Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.”
“I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.”
“Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.”
“Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.”
“The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.”
“There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.”
“I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.”
“It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.”
“I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.”
“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.”
“Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.”
“Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.”
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.”