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Diary entry for 1910-11-27
... the dimension of time: it is life and posterity that transfigure. There in the future all the lines that project out of the object intersect with one another ‒ and the totality of these lines is the splendor. (needs revising) In times gone past musical ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-25
... only the key to poverty can point the way. In this way the drama hovers between the usual technique of the ordinary for sake of the ordinary, and a freer and higher one, which reproduces the strongly elevated feelings in refined poetic lines! The young ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-10
... along the lines of not solely judging the weight to the stomach, but advising a periodic alternation between simplicity and variety at the same weight. I take this opportunity also to draw attention to the fact that joy has the most curative influence on ...
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Diary entry for 1911-11-15
... special attention of the head of household is directed toward the provision of the means appropriate for existence; first in line, thus, everyday life is reconciled with all his interests. His spiritual interests, by contrast, enter into consideration much ...
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Diary entry for 1912-06-30
... automobile line took us from Auer to Fontane fredde. Heavy rain blocked the path to all pleasures of traveling. Fortunately, however, it worked out that when we arrived in Fontane fredde the rain had spoken its last word, and we were able to embark on the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-03
... us, were assigned to protect the water supply line and the electricity power station. And in fact, about an hour after we left Birchabruck we came upon a guard accompanied by a young lady, who suddenly came up to us and demanded documents. At first we ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-07
... people had made a path for the hearse by forming lines. Now with the hearse finally arrived, the scene suddenly changed – how strange – and I find myself in the middle of a church, and in fact in the choir of the church, which somehow was communicating ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-06
... ? Warum will er dann aber nicht verstehen, daß die Sprache der Liebe Bibel auch in Wendungen, wie z. B.: „Gott gebe mir den Feind in die Hand“ This expression could not be traced in the Lutheran Bible; it may be a misquotation of a line from one of the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-13
... breakfast comes to naught, We cannot even get to the buffet, as the tracks were misaligned and the train was threatening to depart! As if we were in a trench on the front line, we had to resign ourselves once more to the hope that, perhaps in Landeck after ...
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Diary entry for 1917-07-19
... carrying all the mail was cancelled. From the mailman we heard, for further clarification, that not seldom a fallen tree (for instance, the result of the cutting of timber) interrupts service on the line for a short while. Lately the young swallows prefer ...