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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. "
Me
World
Love
" Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. "
Among
Woods
Were
" Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me. "
Any
Mind
Feeling
" Being gifted needs courage. "
Being
Needs
Gifted
" Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. "
Birth
Something
House
" But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. "
Year
Find
Inspiration
" 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. "
Only
Me
Madness
" 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. "
Existence
Beauty
Life
" He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish. "
Understand
Who
Danish
" I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. "
Others
Admired
Strength
" I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer. "
Dancer
Became
Ardent
" I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry. "
Soon
Too
World
" I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. "
Time
Whole
Be Happy
" I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. "
Brutality
Human
Kindness
" It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. "
Than
Me
Difficult
" It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow. "
Country
Warm
Cow
" I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small. "
Hearing
Thin
Always
" I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. "
Home
Figures
Values
" I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. "
Me
Plants
Animals
" I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour. "
Overcome
Like
Feeling
" I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. "
Given
Rosy
Looking
" 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. "
Time
Good
Life
" 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. "
People
Climb
Father
" 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. "
Circle
Smile
New
" On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. "
Friendly
Good
Whether
" Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. "
People
Day
Discipline
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