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Diary entry for 1916-01-30
... would really prefer to avoid using it. "Raised above oneself" is a thoroughly graphic way of expressing the effect of all pure love and devotion, whether it applies to people or to art. The person who is devoting himself verily steps outside and above ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-01
... not at all be drawn away from this favorite topic of his – understandable, as this sensation of his nerves was supposed to serve him well in exploiting his clients. Despite the transport having only a few steps to overcome, and the price in any event ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-22
... his lips; and from here they wish to retrace their steps, namely by return to the brain as proof. But just as a piece of paper that is not covered by gold can ever become gold, so little can a word represent a proof for the word itself. All judgements ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-05
... Germans bad habit of always raising doubts only about themselves, instead of leaving this to their inferior opponents, who would much rather be obliged to take steps to please the Germans better! Harden advises the German chancellor to be more amenable ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-10
... , sparrows also appeared, and thus new life gradually formed in the elements. There was a supernatural beauty in the first human song that rose up soon afterwards, presumably from the nearby Sacred Heart School. – As we stepped onto the street, we saw ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-17
... every single step made by the shopkeepers as their command and has no possibility of protecting himself even if just a phase of the price increases passes by him without a trace. It continues to rain. Schubert played. Frau Schuler tells us that there ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-26
... . The ordering of the paragraphs on scale-step Stufe completed! The entire backlog of the Frankfurter Zeitung likewise completed. With delight, I read in a feuilleton from the Frankfurter Zeitung (AugustJuly 23, 1916), "In Switzerland" by Alfons Paquet ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-01
... of breaches of human rights and declares that the time for retribution has finally come. The dismissal of Wilson 's last diplomatic note is extreme enough in its brevity. In my view, this powerful step will signify a final elimination of America from ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-09
... first steps in nature as a result of being born, then it is impossible for naturally born human beings ever to be able also to jump into the artificial synthesis of culture at a single bound. Businessman: all the things he possesses must serve his ...
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Diary entry for 1917-11-28
... merely to show how little the objections to Bruckner are simply attributable to reflection, or to an absolute standpoint. In connection with this I mention the tonic beginnings (a Symphony is not a musical Decalogue!), the all too lush steps in thirds ...