 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. |
| The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. |
| Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types. |
| But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. |
| On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. |
| When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance. |
| I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour. |
| 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. |
| That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. |
| I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry. |
| I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. |
| 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. |
| I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. |
| Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. |
