"The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."
"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence."
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Source: In these great times by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, (In these great times), 1976.
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