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Brief about Georg Brandes: By info that we know Georg Brandes was born at 1970-01-01. And also Georg Brandes is Danish Critic.

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The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

Tags: Enough, Impossible, War

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

Tags: Appearance, Boy, Trouble

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.

Tags: Both, Doubt, Sometimes

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.

Tags: Beauty, Life, Strong

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Tags: Goodness, Human, Kindness

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.

Tags: Good, Life, Time

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.

Tags: Father, Him, Trying

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.

Tags: After, Friendship, Smile

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.

Tags: Home, Relatives, School

Being gifted needs courage.

Tags: Courage, Gifted, Needs

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.

Tags: Compassion, Humanity, Love

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Tags: Among, Summer, Woods

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

Tags: Feeling, Mind, Rare

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Tags: Danish, Joke, Understand

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

Tags: Afraid, Feeling, Often

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Tags: Hot, Poor, Power

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

Tags: Child, House, Quite

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

Tags: Positive, Until, Year

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

Tags: Admired, Others, Strength

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

Tags: Ardent, Dancer, Good
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