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Diary entry for 1928-02-05
... genius of the poet: he has all the characters appear inclined towards promiscuous behavior: all of them, without making a distinction between age and gender, but is able in any event to prevent the worst from happening and make things turn out for the ...
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Diary entry for 1928-05-03
... judgement. I could not hear enough of the impact of the arias; verily, they are motivated from within. The singers needed to add only little to liberate the expression from these genius-imbued compositions. The production was splendid, even if self ...
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Diary entry for 1930-06-08
... gatherings. To Rinn (letter): thanks; music of genius must remain the goal of German music; this would be worthwhile also as a political asset. To Wilhelm (letter= OJ 5/38, [64]): concerning weight loss and increased sugar levels; I complain about Mozio. To ...
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Diary entry for 1930-10-06
... and recommends the Bulletin of the Hochschule in Kiel. From the Students' Union (letter): they would like to reprint "The Mission of German Genius." At 10 o'clock Tomay, with the revised music examples and Urlinie pages. To Deutsch (postcard): Tomay ...
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Diary entry for 1932-08-05
... man"). From Furtwängler (letter from the seaside resort Bansin OJ 11/16, [11]): thanks for the package, hopes to visit us here on the way to St. Moriz; appoints me "co-aspirant", "support," speaks of our common struggle in the service of genius ...
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Diary entry for 1933-07-04
... after Klara and Oskar. To Oppel (letter): thanks for the birthday wishes; I draw on the gently pessimistic tone of his message, and portend the grim prospects for the next generation. If only there were an enforced uniformity of the geniuses – but as ...
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Diary entry for 1909-12-20
... more involuntarily the more profoundly the acknowledgment by mankind that the role of a bringer-of-light ‒ of a genius among men ‒ is a thankless one, ultimately perhaps even an unwelcome one. The punishment, which is allegedly attributed to god, is ...
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Diary entry for 1913-05-23
... . There is a grotesqueness in the gestures of forgiveness with reference to Wagner's seriously compromised humanity. For the sake of a Wagner, the world is prepared to conceive a type of genius that lies even beyond the realm of goodness; it would surely ...
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Diary entry for 1913-07-12
... der Dienst an die Sache. Nur von solcher Hingabe kommt Heil u. , wie gesagt, schließlich auch dieas Recht auf ungangreifbarste u. vornehmste Eitelkeit. 12. If only a genius can understand another genius, as people are finally prepared to admit, then ...
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Diary entry for 1913-08-16
... in several versions in English, of which the best known is: "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." See for example Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 (New York: Harper 1910 ...