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Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Among Delights Picnic Summer Were Woods

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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

Topics: Among Brutality Comrades Encountered Frankness Goodness Human Kindness Most Reserve Traits Varied

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Being gifted needs courage.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Being Courage Gifted Needs

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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

Topics: Active Anybody Day Discipline Home Hours Intercourse Known Lived None Other People Relatives School Six Spent Those Twenty-Four Were Whom

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Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Any Enriching Feeling Me Mind Rare Surrounding Those Unfortunately

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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

Topics: Been Came Compassion Fields Had Humanity Inner Inner World Itself Love Lying Me Over Vast Which World

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Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Afterwards Birth Came Child House More Quite Something Unexpectedly

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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Any Did Find Inspiration Nineteenth Positive Studies Until Year

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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

Topics: Both Christianity Consciousness Doubt Had Horror Madness Me Only Overcome Sin Sometimes Would

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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

Topics: Beauty Caught Destined Existence First Forces Fundamental Glimpse Life Namely Old Strong Twelve Whose Years

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Critic

Born: February 4th, 1842

Died: February 19th, 1927

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