Danish - Critic | February 4, 1842 - February 19, 1927
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.
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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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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.
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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.
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I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
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I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
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I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
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It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
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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 was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
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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.
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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 grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
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