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Quote by Karl Kraus
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on

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

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

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Imagination
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Irony
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. – Friedrich Von Schlegel

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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. – John Weiss

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Irony

So the struck eagle, stretchd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wingd the shaft that quiverd in his heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Irony

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. – Edwin P. Whipple

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I owe my solitude to other people. – Alan Watts

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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