Author: Georg Brandes

Quotes

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

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

- Georg Brandes

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

- Georg Brandes

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

- Georg Brandes

Being gifted needs courage.

Being gifted needs courage.

- Georg Brandes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Georg Brandes

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

- Georg Brandes

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