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- The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. ✨ Die Fackel, no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Ps … ▶
- 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, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ✨ Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kr … ▶
- Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. ✨ Karl Kraus (1977). No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus, Frederick Ungar
- A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ✨ Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). Dicta and Contradicta, p.9, University of Illinois Press
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