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Diary entry for 1907-09-29
... sits that is doing the rushing past. The person who is moving believes the unmoving to be in motion. a Busoni interview, Die Zeit September 1907 "What is a piano class without Liszt?!" When Liszt is singled out so unqualifiedly and with such misleading ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-26
... world in motion. From the Bankverein: 27 marks demanded. Lie-Liechen makes her preparations for relocation; she is already packing. Counterpoint 2 in ever clearer shape; essentially ready to put into the form of a written text. Letter from Sophie ...
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Diary entry for 1921-08-31
... enjoyment of our happiness, such had been the buffeting we had taken, on account the difficulties of the removal, not to mention everything that preceded it; we were incessantly in motion, as if on a conveyor belt, devoid of an opportunity for reflection ...
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Diary entry for 1925-02-13
... voices that chatter on more than all the characters in the play! (And that at a time when the virtues of a simplified set are extolled!), where the set is broken down into countless pieces and set in constant motion). Something like a fable floats by in ...
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Diary entry for 1927-10-08
... seated. In the meantime, the reverberations subsided. Lie-Liechen was immediately able to interpret the rocking motion as an earthquake; she clung to the trembling sideboard! Resi wanted to run away immediately – where to, and for what reason, asked Lie ...
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Diary entry for 1929-10-28
... trouble to gain access to Bruckner. It is only because fashion sets the lie in motion and because fashion is as tacky and simple as a faked sexual act that these people make the tackiest use of tackiness and set crowns upon their heads. Lie ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-22
... fatal outcome, insofar as the intellectual worker does not himself heed the beneficent warnings of Nature and stop his train of thought in good time and set it in motion again only later, after a good period of rest. Applied to the stomach, this leads to ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-23
... the destructive work under its own force. It was the only one of those forces, which set the heaviest blocks of granite in motion during that fateful night, still functional ‒ still active. At the sight of Nature's fearful work we subsequently found ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-12
... in motion at the moment at which the Germans have to fend off the entire world, and saddest of all that Kraus is completely unconscious of his undertaking, does not even know what he really wants, and cannot recommend any positive means even to ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-13
... performance! A baton set automatically in motion seemed simply to fling the musical substances into the air, rather as a figure in a fountain discharges water. The applause was accordingly moderate, but audience and conductor are surely of the opinion that the ...