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Diary entry for 1914-05-21
... sings. Applied to humanity: the bird Beethoven sings – the human masses bellow. As a result of a false upbringing – falsely guided by men especially – women are usually so empty that they seek to fill the empty space that verily cries out with everything ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-27
... values in religion, speech and writing in Galicia, by which they are evidently perpetuating the illusion that they could gain space for their culture, that makes more or less the same impression on me as fleas penetrating a human organism to make use of ...
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Diary entry for 1915-07-09
... German in the space of a month and a half here; but he does not know any Hungarian. O, you poor Austria! Since he cannot read German newspapers or get hold of any Slavic ones, he gets his information from what his Hungarian comrades get from the Hungarian ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-13
... among people, any more than there is wealth among sparrows, doves, and so on. A person, for whom the narrowest of coffins awaits him at the end, behaves as if the largest spaces are hardly sufficient for him during his lifetime. And over and over he ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-25
... present moment. At home, to be sure, telephone lines run from one house to the next, from one room to the next; electric bells link all the spaces in which they live – everywhere a waste of wires and networks; but never does it occur to rich people to set ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-07
... of the majority of its subjects in favor of a few hundred thousands of rich people. The state's crime consists in not even giving any space to the notion that the problem of hunger could be solved even in peacetime. Mrs. Pairamall pays the remaining ...
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Diary entry for 1917-05-28
... , many locals from the town or the vicinity are likewise pushed onto the platform, even without platform tickets, and even take over the few available spaces. The oppressed passengers have to control themselves long enough in this atmosphere, until a few ...
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Diary entry for 1917-09-10
... go into the front carriage. Now we have to move further forwards with our heavy baggage and look for a space there, where other passengers have spread themselves in the meantime. The inability of a conductor who is not even able to formulate his first ...
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Diary entry for 1918-09-19
... of land was the cradle of an eternal thought (just as in the small space of the human mind was often the birth of an eternal truth!) – but hardly had the thought overstepped the boundaries of that small patch of land to go out into the world than it ...
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Diary entry for 1928-07-30
... 's earlier life, so to speak – there are spaces between them, which makes a connection between the two worlds impossible – something which one becomes convinced of only after setting foot in the other place. As little as a grown person were capable of ...