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Diary entry for 1915-05-14
... 1915 was a major German military success. It was conceived to relieve pressure from the Russian army on Austria-Hungary along the Eastern Front, and caused the total collapse of the Russian lines and their retreat far into their own country. Fast sieht ...
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Diary entry for 1915-07-15
... kind." The technique of the human eye, and of seeing, explains to us why we strive for a unified point of view even in intellectual fields: to a certain extent, intellectual lines combine in a focus on an intellectual retina. For this reason humans ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-31
... merely along penal lines? Why does it now pretend to support precisely the academically educated instead of leaving them to themselves, in the same way as the business people? The government's brutality is only too transparent, by which it single ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-20
... -assessment on the part of the businessman, which amounts to the recognition of his worthlessness, has now – criminally – been applied also by the state, entirely along businesslike lines, to lives that rightly value themselves highly, more highly than the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-27
... als für das Genie parallel mit ihm zu gehen – eine Art Sonnenkur. Sie mögen im Lichte wandeln, Probably a reference to Hyperions Schicksalslied by Friedrich Hölderlin, the first two lines of which read: "Ihr wandelt droben im Licht / Auf weichem Boden ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-18
... service. From Zuckerkandl, field postcard; he thanks me for Op. 111. Postcard to Wilhelm; Lie-Liechen describes the journey home in a few lines. The nobility: a group within humanity strives to cultivate their heritage; and the cultivation itself is ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-05
... strong wind. PostcardOJ 13/30, [23] from Roth; he complains about his heavy workload; he is getting through the misery by conducting a male choir and playing the organ during church services. To Vrieslander; I ask for a line about his health; I lament the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-03
... blue sky in all its magnificence. Letter-cardOJ 14/23, [18] from Seligmann, in which he replies to my letterWSLB I.N.95654 and the sending of Op. 110 and Op. 111 (he has not received Op. 109). In the few lines that he writes, he gratefully salutes music ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-12
... , who is kicking at an open door and – as if he had made a new discovery which he is using against me – draws a line between genius and research (with me the researcher and him the defender of genius). The grocer next to the coffee house is asking 5 ...
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Diary entry for 1917-03-11
... from Floriz: he is returning to Vienna to take a measurement course. Letter to Mittler copied and sent off. Letter to Türkel: I criticize him between the lines for his willingness to take Mendl at face value and for saying so; I explain that, in spite ...