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Diary entry for 1915-07-26
... regarded as an art in its own right, having detached itself from its function as music did from dance. In its initial phases, it may have simply served the necessary purpose of mutual understanding; but since then it has grown up, so to speak, into a beauty ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-21
... Seele auch die Melodien fahl gewordenen werden wiedergaben ließ. Aus Anlaß Ders Falles Tietze läßt mich finde ich ein drastisches Beispiel für die unselige Art menschlicher Betrachtung finden überhaupt: Man stelle sich eine Sache vor u. rund um sie herum ...
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Diary entry for 1915-09-18
... , deutsche u. türkische Soldaten, deren Auswahl er sich vorbehält. Die kleine Militärkolonie soll nach Art der Homestead-Gesetze Homestead Acts: several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-11
... public to art are accurate, and trenchantly expressed in words; but he naively says that similar conditions are not thinkable in music. But if he were as good a musician as he is a painter, then mutatis mutandis he could have written the same feuilleton ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-26
... French – none at all, in fact. What proof is this alone of the superior gifts of the Germans! About the wealthy: if only one could impress upon them that they should behave with regard to art, too, just as they behave with regard to money! The wealthy man ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-17
... 17, 1916, 50th year, p. 2. Der Verfasser spricht auch von Englands „Sittlichkeit“, die das Prestige Jahrhunderte lang begründete. Die Deutschen begreifen eben noch immer nicht das Wesen des Engländers. Ganz nach der üblen Art unserer Reichen hat sich ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-07
... may not think about committing a moral or artistic act of betrayal in pursuit of these elements. On first sight, even love is suspicious to me; in art, that sort of thing will certainly not do – for this I already have much, far too much, evidence." ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-16
... accommodate that which is great. (In general, the consequence of a misguided education!) All differentiation that nature has placed is thrown all the more tumultuously onto small things, which assume the role of greater ones. The art of reserving ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-14
... objects of nature are connected with each other. The rich man: one bristles against the star status of the genius only in the realm of art, where it is surely most justified. By contrast, in the commercial domain even the government takes the position of ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-12
... , his family, etc. And if we are to speak about art, all the women of France and Italy with their physical charms surely do not measure up to the grace of a musical work by Bach or Beethoven. I am ever regretful that I have no opportunity at the present ...