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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. -

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. – Karl Kraus

Other quotes by Karl Kraus

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. – Karl Kraus

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Education
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

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Irony
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. – Karl Kraus

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Psychiatry
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

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Writing

I have succeeded in arresting some casual wing of thought as it flew, some transient wave of emotion as it subsided… – William Watson, “A Note on Epigram,” 1883

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Writing

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Writing

Random Quotes

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. – Elie Wiesel

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Death

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. – Herodotus

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God

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. – Pierre de Coubertin

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respect

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief. – Sitting Bull

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Money