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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

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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. – Karl Kraus

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It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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