Karl Kraus Quotes about Style

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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

Karl Kraus

Style, Doe, Want

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

Karl Kraus

Music, Ocean, Style

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”