This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character. (Karl Kraus)

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Karl Kraus

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