"If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work."

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Source: Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and satirist known for his sharp critiques of society, particularly in his influential work 'The Last Days of Mankind'.

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