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It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Georg Brandes
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Georg Brandes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1842
Born: February 4
Died: 1927
Died: February 19
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Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
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I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
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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.
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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.
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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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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Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
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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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