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Quotation by Karl Kraus
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Die Fackel (Vienna, July 2, 1907)Die Fackel (no. 406/12, Vienna, October 5, 1915)Die Fackel (Vienna, Dec. 15, 1913) quoted in Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, ch. 8 (1976)Die Fackel (Vienna, February 15, 1909)Die Fackel (Vienna, Jan. 18, 1917)Related Subjects
life (11) death (5) perception (4) self (4) birth (3) mind, the (3) truth (3) realism (3) God (3) reality (3)
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
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