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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Source: The Discovery of the North Pole, in Die Fackel, no. 287 (Vienna, Sept. 1909; repr. in In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader, ed. by Harry Zohn, 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.


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