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Diary entry for 1917-11-29
... seldom-encountered overcoming of personal vanity (Lie-Liechen), and from an objective viewpoint, a resultant success, just as success always arises at the point where vanity has been courageously repressed. Admittedly, he merely reports about a reading of ...
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Diary entry for 1925-10-10
... Hammer’s success. I thank him for the inscription in the paperback book, which I value very highly; I mention Mr. Wedge and close the letter with the words: “The publisher can, to be sure, hold nothing against Hammer; perhaps it will all blow over ...
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Diary entry for 1911-07-21
... Schwingungszahlen"Progression der Schwingungszahlen": reference is to the succession of frequencies that constitutes the harmonic spectrum. Speculation about this is to be found in several 19th-century treatises, e.g. Rudolph Lotze, Medizinische Psychologie der ...
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Diary entry for 1912-08-09
... for the regional court judge Ullmann and his wife. The effect, as in all such cases, was the same: the listener says that he has never before heard the piano played in that way. Whereupon the same questions promptly arise (about my successes as a ...
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Diary entry for 1912-10-18
... verses not only beautifully but also truthfully. It goes without saying that such an accomplishment, when carried out successfully, has twice the claim to recognition than that which merely speaks the truth in the service of Ibsen. ...
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Diary entry for 1913-01-20
... up into the sky after a great blaze, similarly do all the lies and excuses of the siblings’ rage coldly and baldly after the stubborn battles of words. And yet a moral success is not to be expected. – What was especially striking was his excuse that ...
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Diary entry for 1913-09-15
... constantly growing success: Zeiss lenses! Since I wish to have the very best lenses, there naturally results of necessity an unnecessary deviation, which will expand into countless deviations! And while I am at it: Riedel & Beutel agree to accomplish ...
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Diary entry for 1913-09-23
... we brought along have caused this distrust to disappear. He too, like all attorneys, seeks to bring about a successful result, of the sort that may be found only on the condition that all partners and opponents are clearheaded and of goodwill! His ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-14
... great tragedy that I myself am unable to shake myself free from such a troublesome piece of work, which keeps me from doing my own. Just as it has been since my youth, I must even today take every step and gain every success on my own, whereas for a ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-28
... a favorable decision on the matter of visits, and uses just means to our yet more just intentions to punish a lowly man and thus achieve greater successes. Two letters addressed to Steinitz, one of which I sent through the post office, the other I ...