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• Diary entry for 1912-10-18

  ... appear before the genius, as beggars and parasites, they urgently demand being spared the humiliation of being in receipt of a gift. Put another way: the rich, as beggars, want to take without anyone speaking about it, without anyone noticing it; on the ...

• Diary entry for 1913-04-14

  ... far above ordinary people, the latter are only granted a semblance of them; and precisely the condition that they, from a lack of ability, are incessantly determined to destroy makes the geniuses obliged to proclaim over and over the same truths! To my ...

• Diary entry for 1913-05-28

  ... suffering from the fact that he unfortunately cannot be spared the situation. The two are different things! The genius is especially destined to be obliged to get involved in situations that others bring upon him; he then suffers from the reality of the ...

• Diary entry for 1914-06-22

  ... true artists, the people would show more respect for art. For my part, I strive honestly offer musicians more of a foundation for their artistic dignity, by stretching their horizons to encompass the luminous effect of the genius. When the foundation ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-10

  ... does not realize that such relationships cannot be broken off by casual means, but can be dealt with only in the deepest recognition of German genius, a recognition of which he himself, like his other colleagues, have hitherto remained wanting. Postcard ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-16

  ... arbeitslose – Millionäre. September 16, 1914. Religion is invented by the poor (by the genius who appears from among the ranks of the poor); the rich man, however, never has a religion. The complete enjoyment of the world creates in him an arrogance out of ...

• Diary entry for 1914-11-15

  ... . Bach and to no other composer from a pithy bass line, and thus a short extract bears witness to the overall structure of the genius-driven intellect, – in the same way, the extract from a work by Bach bears witness, in further prolongation, even to the ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-14

  ... objects of nature are connected with each other. The rich man: one bristles against the star status of the genius only in the realm of art, where it is surely most justified. By contrast, in the commercial domain even the government takes the position of ...

• Diary entry for 1916-09-16

  ... , plums have simply disappeared! A an act of thievery that the shopkeeper riff-raff always practice when they have such opportunity – here, in Germany, Romania, Norway, etc. One used to speak of the cosmopolitan mentality of the German geniuses. There is ...

• Diary entry for 1916-11-21

  ... ; everything is gossiped about, sniffed at. – Only before a genius does the ape in man capitulate. ...

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