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Diary entry for 1916-01-02
... poets have no idea of this at all. When it was an error, love was never love, only the folly of youth, and mendacity. Love can never be a lie; true love does not break apart, any more than a work of art can break apart. ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-11
... audience, complimenting it on their innate disposition but criticizing their lack of diligence and stamina. Leading article in the Neue Freie Presse: the journalist is boasting of being a "publicist"! Thus something disgraceful must surely lie in the title ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-16
... Assembly. – The industrialist Thyssen felt insulted by the speech and walked out of the National Assembly! But the extent to which he offended Professor Harnack by his behavior, that is something a Mr. Thyssen would not say! The impetus of the offense lies ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-15
... directions; illusion, indeed, in both directions, but the emphasis lies only in the directions from which even life now acquires meaning and color. Immediately after lunch, to Vally, whom we still find at home even at 1:30. According to her account, Floriz ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-21
... : ultimately an act of the sort that he committed, which could have been regarded as a heroic deed under certain circumstances, amounted this time more to an empty act of anarchy. Thus a tragedy lies not only on the side of the murdered man but also on the side ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-08
... relationship to the necessity of the wares in which they deal? – – One house next to another, one property next to another: and yet the owners perpetuate the lie that they have nothing, absolutely nothing. But then what would those who really have neither house ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-17
... belonged to others or at least ought to have belonged to them. Virtue and vice are simply social phenomena, and thus presuppose human community. Here, however, also lies the origin of all opposition to goodness: this, namely, cannot prevail so long as just ...
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Diary entry for 1917-05-21
... made a point of noting that all creativity is as conscious as it is likewise unconscious in its very earliest state, but that only the genius has the gift of appearing at the same time to lie asleep and be awake, whereas the others are either just ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-10
... working. People will finally have to understand how much work lies in the scheme of nature and works to their advantage both physically and spiritually. But precisely this will never be achieved, and indeed because of a hysteron proteron; for it is only ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-14
... entire German people in Bohemia are atoning for the reckless crimes of those, for whom …" – Wilson's principles, however, lie in the way! – "And the Czech proletariat which, since it has gotten itself caught up in the national action group" – why didn ...