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Diary entry for 1917-07-17
... this same price. The search for a handbag proved even more amusing; nowhere could Lie-Liechen find an attractive scarf, nowhere wooden rings: the majority of handbags were made of less attractive materials, to which metal rings were attached, and these ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-14
... Selling Quickly " – better than losing them to Bolsheviks! Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung: "Wilson's Program: The Foundation of the League of Nations a Major Condition." Scheidemann fears Bolshevism along Russian lines. Quote from the Frankfurter Zeitung ...
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Diary entry for 1919-01-12
... miserable situation, of which they are now afraid! "The Distrust of Majority Rule Against the Independents" (very important!); he speaks of the violent regime of the few! – therein a quotation of a Spartacus telegram: "The Berlin workforce is not yet ready ...
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Diary entry for 1919-02-22
... the Bern conference; from Eisner's resolution: "the proletariat must be united about the meaning of socialism" … "for a political dictatorship of the proletariats, only if a quickly assembled majority actually stands behind it" (a fine excuse!). Wiener ...
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Diary entry for 1919-08-29
... him; in particular, he very much wishes to become acquainted with the epilogue right away, which fails quite simply because I did not bring it along. Even before lunch at the piano a little, Mozart's Sonata in A major and others, after lunch I read ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-28
... Vortrag des 1. Gedankens am Klavier. From the information contained in this sentence (which is confirmed in the diary entry for November 30), one may deduce that the piece in question was the Sonata in B major, D. 960. Dann erschien Vr. wieder u. erzählte ...
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Diary entry for 1910-04-13
... understanding that, so long as the principle of majority rule exists, it is impossible for them ever to persuade the common people on any point whatsoever. (Answer to Prof. Liszt's exhortation in the Neue freie Presse, cf. his lead article of space left for date ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-22
... shorter a thorough study lasts than one that proceeds in error. I calculate: the foundations of the Sonata in A flat major require 3½ months, that is, approximately 15 lessons on my part; whereas a virtuoso, even one of the highest rank, must study the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-06-29
... majority of Slavs would never be able to gain the upper hand over the Germanic peoples – the much higher Germanic culture itself constitutes the stronger weapon – the constant friction with the Slavic world is nonetheless an unnecessarily retarding factor ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-21
... their inferiority and the overt damage they have caused! Of course there is a major obstacle to this: that Germany itself, as I have so often said, is not fully conscious of its genius; in Germany they did not actually think through that it is not an ...