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• Diary entry for 1916-04-05

  ... progress will remain for all times as follows: that a person must, so to speak, walk over his own corpse in order to be resurrected in a genius. They have an easy time walking over the corpse of someone else, but never over their own. Die, and become ...

• Diary entry for 1917-02-02

  ... there is no greater shame, in my opinion, than to show oneself of base upbringing and character by being taken in by the first bad person without further ado. As I often tell my pupils, the shame does not lie in being taken in by a genius, but much more ...

• Diary entry for 1917-02-28

  ... revelations about America and England, discredits the formlessness of the breech with special skill, a formlessness that appeals to the boorish Wilson against all propriety. It was also edifying to hear how he praised "the genius of the supreme army command ...

• Diary entry for 1923-03-20

  ... . To Vrieslander (letter): thanks for the article! I tell him about the student plague, especially about the two newly arrived students, about the work piling up, and express my happiness about seeing him again. Essay about genius corrected. Lie ...

• Diary entry for 1923-08-04

  ... know how to honor the genius, everyone thinks they know better! Dictation of the Scherzo–Trio from around 10:00; finished after lunch. Started in on the fair copy of the Urlinie even before teatime. After teatime, 4:30–6:15 out for flowers: first in the ...

• Diary entry for 1923-08-19

  ... , I mean the inadequacy vis-à-vis the genius, which is the root of all evil. Louise says she does not write bills at all – a practice that is only possible in a Tyrolean valley; it saves the proprietor an assistant. Work in the evening by the ...

• Diary entry for 1923-11-05

  ... (August-Termin!). Frl. Gergely erscheint zur 1. Stunde, zahlt 6 Dollar. 5 Fog. From Vrieslander (letter): strange contents: asks me to reject one of his students, Mr. von Cube, in a letter of my own. The reasoning is not transparent; he is not a genius ...

• Diary entry for 1925-11-15

  ... dignity of an emperor the highest spiritual rank is something that I find somewhat surprising; I thought that Beethoven’s genius would have assured his rank above even that of emperor. After supper, Mein Leopold by l’Arronge listened to, almost by chance ...

• Diary entry for 1925-12-30

  ... situation; he is a victim of the tabula rasa in music! People refuse to believe that, through their lack of understanding of genius in the narrowest and broadest terms, they can actually go to ruin. Such a death has now actually befallen Europe. I report on ...

• Diary entry for 1927-11-12

  ... not become anything other than what he was, he was indeed always more than a composer of waltzes and operettas; he was an inventor and synthesist of genius, even if he practised this synthesis in the narrowest range. In the past, the Philharmonic ...

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