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Diary entry for 1915-09-26
... , love wants to be learned, like any other handicraft; and thus one might understand it still better when I say: as little musicians are able to express themselves successfully in the major and minor tonal system – and here only a few geniuses can do so ...
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Diary entry for 1915-09-30
... genius who is indispensable for their lives, the next one storms in and must start all over again. In this respect they resemble the ever-changing influx of pupils from one year to the next, who achieve only the slightest part of their goal – though this ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-11
... stage of his development; that is, at a stage in which he was mainly collecting intellectual experiences without being able or wishing to reach a conclusive judgment! In their early years even the greatest geniuses suffer from mistakes; for this reason ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-09
... the overall life of nations, in proportion to its yet modest spiritual provision. But the nation has no idea at all what an infinitely high value is possessed by language, insofar as it is placed in the service of the most outstanding genius to express ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-23
... to write something five days before": Vossische Zeitung – – Our geniuses have already for a long time been leading the way, and for longer than five minutes – but it has not done any good. Vossische Zeitung (mid-October): "Principles of Censorship at ...
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Diary entry for 1917-03-20
... , too? The state: the order, which geniuses have advised and continue to advise, has not been taken on by the state; but they have adopted one which the usurpers granted. To the same degree that they needed to protect themselves from any regulation based ...
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Diary entry for 1919-01-31
... ; correspondence between the two emperors – it is clear: Wilhelm II did not understand Bismarck's genius. Letter from a German-Austrian female pacifist (to be read again!). Clémenceau admits to having sacrificed a certain number of very personal viewpoints! The ...
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Diary entry for 1932-09-27
... affection and delight. From Mittler (letter): thanks for the songs; without yet knowing them, he will perform them on the radio in November; adds his wonderment at the "genius-imbued analyses." From Vrieslander (postcard): thanks for Schmid; rightly ...
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Diary entry for 1899-10-01
... conclusion of the play do they begin to ask: Who was he? Was he really guilty? Did he have to suffer that cruel death? etc. Therefore even the greatest geniuses of drama do not shrink from occasionally killing off in their dramatic works even characters that ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-12
... . For precisely the one who is incapable of a deed, the word alone becomes a deed. With the exception of geniuses, all people converge in their common preference for the word as a substitute for the deed. "One": the general abbreviation for the ...