Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. Karl Kraus More Quotes by Karl Kraus More Quotes From Karl Kraus When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room. Karl Kraus insomnia sleep believe There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. Karl Kraus settling shoes sun 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 doe want loss My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. Karl Kraus psychologist consciousness literature Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. Karl Kraus pimples law sex Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. Karl Kraus light science art My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. Karl Kraus turns language common A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. Karl Kraus historian backwards history I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round. Karl Kraus butterfly reading book Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden Karl Kraus forbidden satire censorship Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools. Karl Kraus nuts feet mean The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. Karl Kraus technology development nature If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. Karl Kraus journalism imagination lying Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former. Karl Kraus law wish desire Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. Karl Kraus better-yourself neighbor advice Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos. Karl Kraus cosmetics cosmos women One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. Karl Kraus wells kind reading A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. Karl Kraus writing beautiful life A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. Karl Kraus truth white lying There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. Karl Kraus twenties two needs
