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Diary entry for 1912-09-15
... Eucharist, and, as such, to appear before the people. HS hand: Nogi’s self-sacrifice in remote Japan. To be sure, a heroic spirit lies at the heart of it. (A pity that, at present, nothing on the matter is laid out in his letters.) The simultaneous sacrifice ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-30
... poor music teachers to (form) an organization so that they can secure their fees for lessons cancelled by pupils. But the author misses the ultimate cause for this bad practice; it lies deeper than one is inclined to believe. The relationship of the ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-25
... Beethoven“ vorhanden wären seien “. Josef Venantius von Wöss, Gustav Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde: thematische Analyse (Vienna: Universal Edition 1912). Diese erschreckende u. heitere Naivität erklärt sich einfach so: Herr v. Wöss hat, der U.-E. angehörend ...
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Diary entry for 1913-02-18
... 18. Zum ersten mal mit Lie-Liechen im Burgtheater bei „Ceasar Caesar u. Cleopatra“ von Shaw. George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898). Lie-Liechen hat die Genugtuung von Leuten ihrer früheren „Heimat“ gesehen worden zu sein u. hofft, daß der ...
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Diary entry for 1913-05-01
... stronger lies something that is stronger still, the ultimate climax of which is the most all-powerful of orderliness, of goodness. Because the hawk overpowers a little chick, a person takes pleasure in copying the hawk, which is stronger, and conquering the ...
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Diary entry for 1913-05-22
... opulence. In such an indulgence, one finds a beneficent balance between poor and rich, and how little this costs the church! The most charming of all is surely the little castle that presumably belongs to a Polish count, whose commercial assets lie on the ...
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Diary entry for 1913-07-12
... -Wiesen (Regole di Malosco): open meadows with larch trees, lying west of the Penegal mountain in the region of Malosco in the South Tyrol; see Geographische Studien über Mensch und Siedlung in Südtirol, ed. Wolfgang Haberl (= Schlern-Schriften 217; Innsbruck ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-23
... to the end! Nature transforms an animal only by a small number of drivers: by hunger, love, and self-preservation. Culture, however, diversifies people according to thousands more interests, which now give him the occasion to lie, to deceive, to ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-30
... nur fortzusetzen möglich sein wird! Eine Stelle in Brahms Sammlung, die sich auf ein Schubert’sches Lied Probably Die böse Farbe, song no. 17 in the cycle Die schöne Müllerin, in which there is a succession of first-inversion chords with doubled roots ...
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Diary entry for 1914-07-31
... action only in the most extreme circumstances. Thus festers the lie of a false idea of Pan-Slavism, which is contrary to nature, the evil product of a lazy envoy of an intellectually and morally low-level character like Hartwig. Only in such an immature ...