What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. -Karl Kraus

 

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.


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This quote is just one of 25 total Karl Kraus quotes in our collection. Karl Kraus is known for saying 'What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

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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.

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Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well. -Karl Kraus
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The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

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