"The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life."

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Source: Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.155, Syracuse University Press

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Karl Kraus

Playwright, Journalist

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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