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Georg Brandes

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Being gifted needs courage.


— Georg Brandes


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Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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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.


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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


— Georg Brandes


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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.


— Georg Brandes


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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


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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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