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| Karl Kraus
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality. A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards. A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion. The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. |
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