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Diary entry for 1925-05-07
... at this point of the drama. Therein lies a virtue of society, not a vice. It was then not logical on the part of the author to stand up for the Jew and against society for ultimately forcing the Jew out. Herein lies the contradictory leading of the ...
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Diary entry for 1928-10-24
... Weisse's postcard of October 10, 1928 (OJ 15/15, [33]). werde ich durch v. Hoboken erreichen. Von Schellhammer den Lotteriegewinn: 75 S.!! Warenumsatzsteuer erlegt. Nach der Jause Einkäufe. Lie-Liechen bereitet den Abendtisch vor – von ½8–½1h Vrieslander ...
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Diary entry for 1908-04-04
... Polyph., dem Satz darbot: welchen Ersatz bietet nun Ferrari für solche Plastik? Brahms in seinem Requiem behalf sich mit 3-teiliger (Lied-), oder 4-th. Form, ‒ aber ohne solche, ohne feste Plastik überhaupt kann ein Musik-Satz wohl niemals genossen werden ...
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Diary entry for 1913-03-07
... some other sort of reckoning. The appeal to temperament is thus a pure lie, and arose originally as a legal stratagem and later passed into general reasoning. ...
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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 1913-07-04
... greatest joy is conferred if he leads his being to the furthest point; such development is given also to him, just as the strongest may develop all the powers at their disposal. But now the tragedy lies in the very fact that the weak one plays out the ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-01
... cannot compete for an effect in a hall that can accommodate 5,000 visitors. In each and every art-form, the limits of its own materials, and thus also the limits of its effect, are prescribed. The particular value of art for us lies in the fact that it ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-24
... daughter is not tired of making the long trip four times in order to take receipt of the money. When I made the suggestion that a simple postcard with a reminder would have achieved the same result, she began – and herein lies the depraved Viennese ...
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Diary entry for 1914-07-16
... me of all people (over lunch) about Bülow with a reverence that seems to lie deeply within him, and of which nothing – absolutely nothing – was to be noted about what he has read in my writings about Bülow's transgressions, in spite of his utter ...
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Diary entry for 1914-07-26
... now Serbia dares to add to this mockery the mischief of a war, without regard to the figure of the sorely-tested old Emperor! No doubt, the schnapps boutique Russia lies behind this. There, in Russia, the Slavic half-breed is raging. He still does not ...