One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.
Karl KrausMany desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
Karl KrausMankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
Karl KrausWhat do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?
Karl Kraus