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Diary entry for 1913-05-16
... that only therein lies the tragedy of all humanity. For it would be better that they should want those of a higher formed nature than themselves; for then they would gain, even at the price of injured vanity, advantages of the sort that they could never ...
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Diary entry for 1913-06-08
... factor. And so all of those who regard homosexuality as a disease spoke up, in an effort to cheat justice. My view of the matter remains unshakeable: that the basis of the above-named perversion lies, like any other, first in curiosity; then ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-05
... have to take his refuge; and once he is trapped by this lie, all his future sexual lives risk becoming contaminated. In the end it follows that the contamination of what was originally a true and beautiful act has adverse consequences also for the woman ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-06
... housekeeper arrives, agreeing to provide her service. All the uprightness with which she is credited was unable to prevent her introducing herself with a lie; yet what must not be tolerated if the goal of an ultimate liberation of my mother from landladies is ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-03
... nonetheless self-evident to every reasonable person that he certainly did not want to sing the praises of the press in general, but only of those which can somehow be influenced and used for political purposes. I believe that one can say that therein lies a ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-19
... could easily expose its border with Italy in spite of Savoy and Nice, could be interpreted as an unfavorable contrast. And finally Germany would also have to realize this: that the Italians have been lying for all these decades if they are merely ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-19
... many melodies; for hardly had the beautiful melody been repeated than our nerves protested in the most violent way. That which so lies in the nature of things would probably have avenged itself bitterly on the young people; but a certain artificiality ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-02
... poets have no idea of this at all. When it was an error, love was never love, only the folly of youth, and mendacity. Love can never be a lie; true love does not break apart, any more than a work of art can break apart. ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-11
... audience, complimenting it on their innate disposition but criticizing their lack of diligence and stamina. Leading article in the Neue Freie Presse: the journalist is boasting of being a "publicist"! Thus something disgraceful must surely lie in the title ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-16
... Assembly. – The industrialist Thyssen felt insulted by the speech and walked out of the National Assembly! But the extent to which he offended Professor Harnack by his behavior, that is something a Mr. Thyssen would not say! The impetus of the offense lies ...