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WRITERS > journalist, critic, playwright, poet > Karl Kraus
The devil is...
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Source: Die Fackel, no. 277/78 (Vienna, 31 March 1909; repr. in Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, ch. 8, 1976).
-- Karl Kraus, (Apr 28 1874-1936), Austrian journalist, critic, playwright, poet; He has been compared to Juvenal and Jonathan Swift for his satiric vision and command of language.