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How unreliable is the woman c...

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

Truth is a clumsy servant tha...

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

Sentimental irony is a dog th...

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

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

War: first, one hopes to win;...

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.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

A plagiarist should be made t...

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

He who sleeps half a day has ...

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

In case of doubt, decide in f...

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

Talent is often a defect in c...

Talent is often a defect in character.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

Technology is a servant who m...

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

If by day art is in the servi...

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

Many share my views with me. ...

Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

One cleans someone else's thr...

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

Karl Kraus 344 quotes

In Berlin, things are serious...

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

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I saw a poet chase a butterfl...

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 344 quotes

A bibliophile has approximate...

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

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The real end of the world is ...

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

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Sorrento, August. For two wee...

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

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My request that my writing be...

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

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A historian is often only a j...

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

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Progress, under whose feet th...

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 344 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....