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Diary entry for 1916-04-27
... more than the pains of need themselves. Therefore the human drive aims rather at avoiding such a bitter-tasting dependence. Herein lies the root of all avarice. Return to the Viennese laundry company. In their last hour of need, people often become also ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-10
... painting. To people who see things only at close range – and most men and women are so constituted – love, too, lies only in their nearest circle, namely in the act of mating. But in that way love is only a product of nature, like the act of mating ...
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Diary entry for 1917-03-13
... being celebrated but also those who are doing the celebrating. The Jew stands and falls simply on the Books of Moses as a revelation! Even today it is this Werle lie alone that keeps Judaism as such afloat. One can see this from the fact that those Jews ...
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Diary entry for 1917-03-25
... , 1917. 0°; on the rooftops and in the streets, the snow lies higher than in the depths of winter. Postcard to Dahms: thanks for the photograph; I mention the suddenly announced danger which is threatened by the city government. Letter to Vrieslander: I ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-09
... , lies the root of all evil as it manifests itself in the individual professions, indeed most recently even in the evil of the war. For even the war ultimately signifies nothing other than a means of protecting, as far as possible, the future generations ...
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Diary entry for 1917-07-08
... vain wherein his superiority lies. Without religion, without ethical principles, swallows live in contented monogamy, which they bring to fruition far more completely than does man, who appears to be of a higher standing in spite of the constraints of ...
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Diary entry for 1917-07-12
... dangerous dictator. PostcardOJ 8/3, [41] to Vally: birthday greetings to the boy. At 8:45 a short walk in the hilly landscape lying in front of our windows. During the day, the brightness increases more decisively, a somewhat subdued light suggests an outing ...
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Diary entry for 1917-08-26
... wundervollen Glanz des Wassers nicht sattsehen. Der See, größer als der Gschwendsee, Presumably a small lake in the vicinity of the Gschwandtkopf, a mountain whose summit lies about a mile south-southwest of Seefeld. ist doch auch wieder weniger ein wirk ...
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Diary entry for 1917-11-27
... word of the enemy's! Even if, in itself, rapprochement is already an illusion, it would be doubly so, if that is possible, when it stems from a lie, as must be the case in the present military situation. In a word: he who would be forced to capitulate ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-09
... arise between neighboring democracies would lead to war as easily as if the forms of government were different." Thus democracy is not the panacea against war, from which it follows that the Entente's slogan was a lie all along, since it would have to ...