I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what…

Karl Kraus
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. ✨ Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). Dicta and Contradicta, p.118, University of Illinois Press
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. ✨ Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). Dicta and Contradicta, p.118, University of Illinois Press

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