He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
From Georg Brandes
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
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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