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Diary entry for 1912-11-12
... one's obligations a matter of one's own pocket: so long as her parents regarded this merely in terms of my time, merely of my money, she squandered both at will. Now that the assumption of the loss of money lies with her, even an operation is no longer ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-13
... fault lies with – Mendelssohn. – Dvořák's Fifth Symphony ("from the New World"): misuse of sonata form for the purposes of a potpourri; at best a rhapsody would have been appropriate. The dramatic accents of the symphony were transferred artificially ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-14
... question of the money that is necessary, and that this can be procured neither from the state nor from private persons. It follows, in my opinion, that more cynicism lies behind all these enterprises than one is generally inclined to suppose. For insofar as ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-02
... and yet dares to call his compatriots, whom the world was plaguing with its lies and brought severe misfortune to 100,000 people, as "noble"! Emperor Wilhelm has the kindness to commend Hindenburg additionally with the following statement: "You have ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-21
... down. Whether Shakespeare himself had a hand in this I don't know; but Blauda was presented to me as lying by the sea. The aspect, unknown to me, attracted my curiosity and as I stepped onto the shore I actually saw, to my horror, a horse and carriage ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-05
... become guilty of the same obscenities as the nobility of the past! The rich man maintains that his riches alone are the fortunate condition for which even a poor person can at least scrape a living. In every respect a lie, which can even be demonstrated ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-27
... divinity, the geniuses have for a long time appeared on the scene, as the masters and teachers of people. May humanity be beholden to them for all time! Before us lies the grave; but ahead of us only generations who likewise will stand at the beginning, as ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-08
... difficulties. As a result of immaturity, the larger part of the region of their souls is governed only by vice, deceit, lies, vanity, etc.; and truth and virtue remain upright only in the tiniest corner. To people, however, this appears to be regrettably ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-25
... attitude; the deficiencies of our enemies lie much deeper than Berlin brashness, which may most certainly not be regarded as a German national vice. Also the present time does not lend itself to rendering our enemies the service (which they withhold from us ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-08
... not realize that the very criterium of an absent subjective feeling of usefulness only pushes the first-named factors, of power and risk, downwards towards anti-social, anti-artistic, anti-scientific, and anti-state criminality. It lies in the nature ...