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Diary entry for 1915-12-16
... have the satisfaction of causing her to recognize a responsibility of that sort. Nature alone proceeds on the basis of cause and effect, and it takes its victims cold-heartedly, so to speak, if they are part of the consequences. Even since childhood ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-20
... day, at times with catastrophic character. In a newspaper one can read that this has been the rainiest July since 1945! Wilhelm Meister, IV19–20. Part VII finished, Part VIII taken up. Mr. Kaplan says that a few Russian prisoners had escaped to the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-25
... today plays a major part in the conduct of the war. One can only see what artifice those who wage war apply in order to instill fear in one another: one disperses lies, rumors, exaggerated statistics, and much else of the kind. Achan's theft; nonetheless ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-07
... at least gained the vantage point, in contrast to his predecessors, of fulfilling his duty as a critic to accept my polemics not merely as justified but also as an integral part of my work, the study of which he urgently recommends. He further admits ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-24
... assumes that we are imputing an incorrectness on the part of the post office, which he supervises; and he repeatedly asserted, in an irritable voice, that the regulation reads in just this one way, etc. That, however, such a regulation does not lie merely ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-05
... from Sophie in which she announces a new consignment as well as offering the prospect of being able to send us food in perhaps more abundant quantities from Bielitz, partly through the mail, but partly through relatives who occasionally travel. She also ...
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Diary entry for 1919-01-07
... -Zeitung in opposition to the Spartacists! The Conference in Lausanne: will the Germans take part? On the collapse on the Piave according to the Agramer Tagblatt (extremely important!) Expulsion of the people of Alsace-Lorraine – French vulgarities! Roosevelt ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-29
... one of Dalcroze’s pupils. She takes me in her nice new car as far as the address; the professor joins us for part of the way. And so, even if belately, I have achieved everything that I intended and what was at all possible for me to achieve. My ...
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Diary entry for 1911-11-13
... is coupled to the fact that tolerance on the part of the good people affected only makes the villain all the more insolent and directly tempts him to add to the misdeeds already tolerated. Only the amount of damage makes defense necessary. Just think ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-06
... . In the meantime, I gave Brünauer his lesson and Lie-Liechen returned home to prepare supper. Brünauer would be prepared to give Mrs. Deutsch chocolate and similar products, even at a cheaper price, if she for her part could manage to get her brother ...