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Georg Brandes Quotes

Georg Brandes quotes

Danish Critic February 4, 1842 – February 19, 1927

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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
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
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
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
Georg Brandes quote: "But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies..."
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes quote: "I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light."
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes quote: "School is a foretaste of life."
School is a foretaste of life. Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes quote: "I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me..."
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes quote: "I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a..."
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes quote: "On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on..."
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. Georg Brandes
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
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
Georg Brandes quote: "The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth..."
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes quote: "I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer."
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer. Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes quote: "That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way..."
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. Georg Brandes

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