It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of somethin…

Karl Kraus
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

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