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Georg Brandes

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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 destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.


— Georg Brandes


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I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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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.


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.


— Georg Brandes


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His literary goals were shared by many authors among them the Norwegian realist playwright Henrik Ibsen. In his critical work which extended over a wider field than that of any other living writer Brandes was aided by a singularly charming style lucid and reasonable enthusiastic without extravagance brilliant and colored without affectation. Victoria Benedictsson committed suicide in a Copenhagen hotel room and the relationship with Brandes has later been blamed as the cause for the death.

He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. In 1884 Viggo Hørup Georg Brandes and his brother Edvard Brandes started the daily newspaper Politiken with the motto: "The paper of greater enlightenment".

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