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Diary entry for 1914-08-23
... peace over the past quarter century, has today become – as a warlord – the principal destroyer of Europe." And also: "I believe that the emperor did not know what he was doing when he refused the British olive branch." With so little gray matter in his ...
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Diary entry for 1915-07-13
... the first quarter of an hour, we become uneasy about having lost the sight and sound of the water, whereas – so we believe – the map promised that the brook would be our constant companion. The further we must have turned away from it, the more we ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-01
... , between hedges as far as the first houses of St. Jakob. From there, back along the upper road to Nasserein and now again through the lower meadow to St. Anton. The first quarter of the way was unknown even to me; to Lie-Liechen, the entire first half was ...
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Diary entry for 1917-08-01
... recently, something that is all the more implausible since any demand for it was altogether denied in the other two shops. A quarter kilogram of apricots costs 1.10 Kronen. Returning home, we are surprised in the most astonishing way by burning electric ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-30
... the last lesson he again arrived a quarter of an hour early, with the typical excuse: "I have something to ask about the trio" – as if the trio were not also music. Journalists – workers: fists, feet. Journalists in effect the fists of the intellect ...
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Diary entry for 1921-08-29
... :30 in Innsbruck; the hotel porter causes us difficulties, finally directing us to a room with the words " . . it's very embarrassing for me" – a motto that rang all too true, since within quarter of an hour that night Lie-Liechen slayed thirteen bedbugs ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-10
... nearly simultaneously now and then to start releasing a "quarterly publication" right away, also reflecting this in the title. Now I am free of the tight constraints and I am happy to steer toward the world of sonatas. Volume IV thereby also takes on more ...
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Diary entry for 1924-01-21
... the delaying of the issues – that he is intending an act of violence, namely to bring out the issues as the first of the quarterlies. In the interim I am to be fraudulently pacified by a correction to the title-page, which restores the "pamphlets" and ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-28
... shows me, proudly and with the greatest respect, the various reading rooms: a book room, newspaper room, Italian room; as the lamps have already been turned off, I cannot view the children’s room. The building dates from 1928; an annex has remained three-quarters ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-30
... dining room. The conversation is very animated: she talks, I talk, and before we realize it, it is a quarter to 8. We then take our leave of one another very warmly and affectionately; a spiritual aura flows from the young lady, which touches me greatly ...