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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."
"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."
"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."
"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."
"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."
"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."
"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."
"My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself."
Explore more quotes by Karl Kraus
"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
"Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world."
"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."
"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
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