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• What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

  Karl Kraus

  Sex, Excess, Surrender

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Opponents, Made

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Criticism, Critics

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

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• I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

  Karl Kraus

  Heads Or Tails, Style, Firsts

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

  Karl Kraus

  Dream, Pockets, Psychoanalysis

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.105, Syracuse University Press

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• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  Karl Kraus

  Vision, Saws, Literature

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

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• Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

  Karl Kraus

  Palpitation, Blushing, Havens

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

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• If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Blow, Adults

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• A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

  Karl Kraus

  Jealousy, Sex, Men

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

  Karl Kraus

  Running, Years, Cleaning

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

  Karl Kraus

  German Language, Littles, Today

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I am not for women but against men.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Men And Women

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Agreement, Civilization

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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• How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

  Karl Kraus

  Powerful, Lying, Volcanoes

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.24, University of Illinois Press

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• What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

  Karl Kraus

  Beautiful, Freedom, People

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Speak, Stage

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Half, Aphorism

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• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  Karl Kraus

  Heart, Men, Desire

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

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• When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, Acting

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

  Karl Kraus

  Mirrors, Self, Hands

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

  Karl Kraus

  Age, Ink, Veins

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

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• Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

  Karl Kraus

  Erotic, Curiosity, Meals

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  Karl Kraus

  Wisdom, Experience, Saving

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

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• A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Writing, Deadline

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

  Karl Kraus

  Perfect One, Perfect, Defects

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