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Language Quotes by Karl Kraus
- Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
- My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
- Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
- One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes,…
- When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head.…
- Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators…
- Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.
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