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Diary entry for 1917-11-15
... , etc.), with music, of all things, supposed that its craftsmanship might be so cheap and shallow. A simply logical deduction from those other areas transferred to that of music would at least have let a clue dawn on him, and who knows how differently ...
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Diary entry for 1918-04-12
... and report the simultaneous transfer of 50 Kronen of which I ask that at least 5 Kronen be given to the courier; finally, I ask if he couldn't ocassionally send some salami. To Vrieslander (postcard): regarding Kufferath effort: this suits me just fine ...
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Diary entry for 1919-03-28
... should remain calm, just now is not the right time to transfer money, since it would be immediately taken away from me, but that once this incident is over I will certainly receive money and in any case will be able to go away over the summer reassured ...
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Diary entry for 1919-08-25
... on how he can help arrange the transfer of our baggage back home. To Elias (postcard): permission received, fearfully waiting the decision due on September 1. We spend the afternoon at home since we are expecting the washerwoman; at around 6:00 we ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-18
... ourselves: we have finished! What then? The idea of being finished is often wrongly transferred to its relationship to art, as to life in a certain sense, from other situations which, however, can be regarded as truly analogous: I am referring to studies at ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-15
... reply to the English shopkeeper riff-raff concerning their verbal expressions covered in genuine shopkeeper-brain manure; his last words are extremely imposing and effective, because they are convincing: that England itself has "transferred the matter of ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-14
... paintings by Rembrandt, what might that person signify in comparison to the latter valuable acquisition? And why should the honor due to the artworks be transferred to someone who has not created them?) Dealt with in this way, the rich would immediately lose ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-21
... incapable of a true accomplishment, the rich man transfers the tendency towards parsimony even with respect to what money can accomplish. As with all his achievements, he is miserly even with his money. As martyrdom is part of the fate of a great artist, the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-28
... only the latter possesses the elementary facility to keep its nerves active at all costs. Indeed, the analogy may even be transferred to the genitals. In sexual relationships, only the intellect – the palate of the genitals – is critical; by contrast ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-15
... was for a time at risk of being transferred to the infantry, which came about as a result of the entire identity-card office being suspected of unauthorized machinations and, as a punishment, being sent to the front. How he succeeded in Marburg ...