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Diary entry for 1911-11-11
... just that of his own lack of insight, that lay behind it. But I countered this: "With all due respect, the reason lies elsewhere: it was possible for you to underrate Brahms only because you had still not fully understood Beethoven. Anyone who ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-16
... sacred or secular world, the significance of whom may be said to have provoked artworks of such rank. In the old, leading generations lie uncommonly suggestible things, and not by mistake. None of today’s great industrialists would succeed, even if his ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-05
... to one side and to block the Czech school. It lies in one's own interest as a less cultivated individual, or a less cultivated nation, that the representative of higher culture is maintained and, moreover, better maintained than that of the less ...
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Diary entry for 1913-05-16
... that only therein lies the tragedy of all humanity. For it would be better that they should want those of a higher formed nature than themselves; for then they would gain, even at the price of injured vanity, advantages of the sort that they could never ...
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Diary entry for 1913-06-08
... factor. And so all of those who regard homosexuality as a disease spoke up, in an effort to cheat justice. My view of the matter remains unshakeable: that the basis of the above-named perversion lies, like any other, first in curiosity; then ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-05
... have to take his refuge; and once he is trapped by this lie, all his future sexual lives risk becoming contaminated. In the end it follows that the contamination of what was originally a true and beautiful act has adverse consequences also for the woman ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-06
... housekeeper arrives, agreeing to provide her service. All the uprightness with which she is credited was unable to prevent her introducing herself with a lie; yet what must not be tolerated if the goal of an ultimate liberation of my mother from landladies is ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-03
... nonetheless self-evident to every reasonable person that he certainly did not want to sing the praises of the press in general, but only of those which can somehow be influenced and used for political purposes. I believe that one can say that therein lies a ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-19
... could easily expose its border with Italy in spite of Savoy and Nice, could be interpreted as an unfavorable contrast. And finally Germany would also have to realize this: that the Italians have been lying for all these decades if they are merely ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-19
... many melodies; for hardly had the beautiful melody been repeated than our nerves protested in the most violent way. That which so lies in the nature of things would probably have avenged itself bitterly on the young people; but a certain artificiality ...