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Diary entry for 1917-09-29
... further correspondence, this time – he expressly adds the phrase "entirely uninfluenced" – he replies "only for sake of courtesy." Without doubt, this letter was composed under the influence of his father, who would not miss the opportunity to hurt Lie ...
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Diary entry for 1918-01-07
... -modern" (the phrase even appears in spaced type) the requirement that, rather than mere sonorities, it is ideas, motives – which need to undergo their fate, etc.,– that should at all cost ultimately be restated. He quotes in this context a remark of his own ...
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Diary entry for 1918-02-16
... formulate my reproach of a certain indifference that they exhibit toward us; I allege that his wife gave us too little to eat on the occasion of our visit, which I am bound to feel all the greater a neglect since in his own phrase she was "careless over ...
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Diary entry for 1919-03-30
... quickly by peace. The sad victors are making every effort to hammer home their "victory" to the world; trademark: Anglo-Saxon Apacheness, French phrase syphilis that have been gnawing on the marrow of humanity for centuries. But every day also judges the ...
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Diary entry for 1919-12-04
... this I give the appropriate answer completely relaxed and cheerfully, emphasizing particularly my financial patronage. The phrase "and that right on a holiday, no less?" especially amused me – this referred to December 8; I calm him down on this point ...
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Diary entry for 1923-12-20
... passages revealing something akin to ordered inspiration, ordered voice-leading; certainly still within a tonal framework. Beethoven played badly. Pollak displays nice turns of phrase of his own now and again, Sirota impossible, Buxbaum colorless. In the ...
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Diary entry for 1909-12-21
... I., zu verbinden sich außer Stande sieht. „Unter der Regierung“ lautet die bereite Phrase, oder wohl auch: „Wilhelm tat dies oder jenes“ u. doch schreit es aus allen Poren der Menschheit: Nicht die Könige selbst sind es, die das alles vollbringen ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-26
... , p. 3. „Das französische Volk könne auch Mißerfolge ertragen.“ Zuerst wurde also gelogen u. hintendrein kommt die Phrase von der Wahrheit u. den hohen Charaktereigenschaften des franz. Volkes. Wäre es wahr, daß das französische Volk auch Mißerfolge ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-15
... the articleOJ 21/2, [1] sent to Frankfurt. Turns of phrase from my letter to Mrs. Colbert: "discipline of culture …" again cited in opposition to the patronesses of war, and the following sentences: "In Vienna one still has no idea that culture, too ...
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Diary entry for 1917-03-02
... 2. III. 17 -2°, sehr schön blau. O sancta simplizcitas "O holy simplicity": a phrase attributed to the Czech theologian and church reformer Jan Hus (c. 1372–1415). der Nationalökonomie! Während Wo der Kaufmann lediglich „nach Gefühl kalkuliert ...