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Diary entry for 1915-08-21
... , admittedly, only a comic effect, insofar as one sees merely an excess of submissiveness on the part of the old man; and one is gradually astonished to learn that, in spite of such pronounced determination, he has not received the smallest decoration, which he ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-31
... hören tun hat. 31. In a cool temperature of 9°, fair weather. Purchase of new lottery tickets. LetterOC 52/176 from Hertzka assuring me of the money I requested. First part of the Preliminary Remarks completed. Floriz is travelling to Marburg in order to ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-12
... at all understand the sudden criticisms on the part of consumers. One can see with increasing frequency how business people are already capable of appropriating the latest catchphrase – namely, the concept of "luxury" – with which they can now justify ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-27
... business practice in general. It is amusing, then, to see how our internal bandits grumble about the pirates! About the wealthy: they do not part with their money and thus at the same time only express their distrust of their own capability; they worry ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-31
... cataracts and Vyšehrad is not so great – but music for its part demands a broader expanse of the key of E major in this passage. ...
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Diary entry for 1915-11-15
... major. Insofar as the world war has, on the part of the Allies, been waged with several goals at the same time, almost like a sentence with various subjects, it is also a typically modern, confused creation. To hold a conversation as logically and ...
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Diary entry for 1915-11-28
... in the strictest sense of the word, seems to be closed – he again become anorganic! Purchase of tickets for the concert. From Floriz (postcard): hindrances on his part removed. From U.E. (postcard): confirms receipt of yesterday's consignment and ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-14
... wanted to give him credit for having made his way to us in spite of everything. Unfortunately, I could speak with him for only all too short a time, as he was in need of rest and I for my part had duties to fulfill. And as he had to depart already on the ...
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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 1916-03-21
... thus likes only what is left over – beyond incomprehension. In the evening, the first copy of Op. 111 is sent to me. On account of a strange lapse on the part of the printing house, the first page of the musical text is printed on the reverse side of ...