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One Quotes by Karl Kraus
- Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
- It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
- An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
- The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
- The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself…
- 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,…
- One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
- It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
- An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
- War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end,…
- War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the…
- In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more…
- In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it ...…
- I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I…
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