“What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man.”

—  Karl Kraus

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

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Czech playwright and publicist 1874–1936

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