"I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants."
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Karl Kraus quotes (page 9 of 14)
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"It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean."
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"Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!"
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"Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts."
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"One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis."
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"We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end."
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"Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it."
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"My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions."
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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 have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words."
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"It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper."
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"Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music."
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"Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?"
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"There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism."
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"The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by."
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"Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age."
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"The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result."
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"To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism."
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"Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there."
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"The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature."
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