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Georg Brandes
Danish
Critic
About the author
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Hearing
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Cheerfulness
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Mother
It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Play
#Country
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Time
#Life
#Years
#Strength
#Imagination
#School
#Brother
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#People
#Old
#Trying
#Father
#Stairs
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Years
#Smile
#First
#Friendship
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#World
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Power
#Poor
School is a foretaste of life.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Life
#School
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Positive
#Inspiration
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Time
#Problems
#Living
#Literature
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Attention
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Time
#Truth
#Humanity
#Errors
#Inheritance
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#War
#Interest
#Soldiers
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Trouble
#Appearance
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Life
#Light
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#People
#Day
#Home
#School
#Discipline
#Relatives
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Christianity
#Consciousness
#Doubt
#Sin
#Horror
#Madness
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Love
#World
#Humanity
#Lying
#Compassion
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Feeling
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Summer
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Feeling
#Mind
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Life
#Years
#Old
#First
#Beauty
#Existence
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Life
#Open
#Animals
#Plants
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#World
#Months
I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#World
#Home
#Values
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Time
#Day
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Goodness
#Kindness
#Frankness
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Strength
Being gifted needs courage.
Georg Brandes,
Danish
Critic
#Being
#Needs
#Courage