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Facts about Georg Brandes SummaryGeorg Brandes was a famous Critic from Denmark, who lived between February 4, 1842 and February 19, 1927.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Georg.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Charles F. Kettering, Charles Eastman, Mahatma Gandhi, Anne Baxter, Albert Schweitzer, Elbert Hubbard, Robert Frost, Robert F. Kennedy, Ngo Dinh Diem, Margaret Lee Runbeck, George Matthew Adams, Alice Meynell, James Lane Allen, Adlai Stevenson, John Barrymore, Arthur C. Clarke, George S. Patton, Thornton Wilder, Casey Stengel, Vince Lombardi Famous quotes by Georg Brandes (31)  "I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals"
"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"
"Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house"
"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"
"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour"
"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"
"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"
"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types"
"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"
"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"
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness"
"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"
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