Georg Brandes Quotes
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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.
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
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It is useless to send armies against ideas.
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Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....
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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…
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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
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School is a foretaste of life.
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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…
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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
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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…
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Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
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Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
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Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
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He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
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I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
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I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
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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…
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