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Karl Kraus

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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.


— Karl Kraus


#prison #solitude #life

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.


— Karl Kraus


#diplomats #how #in print #journalists #led

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.


— Karl Kraus


#cannot #ugly #who #woman

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.


— Karl Kraus


#humor #sex #humor

You don't even live once.


— Karl Kraus


#life

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.


— Karl Kraus


#life

Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.


— Karl Kraus


#critical #criticism #equality #inequality #life

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.


— Karl Kraus


#those #virginity #want #who

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.


— Karl Kraus


#called #disease #morality #primary #secondary

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.


— Karl Kraus


#imagination #killed #lies #life #our






About Karl Kraus






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His friendship with Peter Altenberg began about this time. To the numerous enemies he made due to the inflexibility and intensity of his partisanship however he was a bitter misanthrope and poor would-be (Alfred Kerr). Person
Karl Kraus was a subject of controversy throughout his lifetime.

Karl Kraus (April 28 1874 – June 12 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist known as a satirist essayist aphorist playwright and poet. For the theologian see Karl Christian Friedrich Krause.

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