“Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.”

— Georg Brandes

Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 19

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Danish literature critic and scholar 1842–1927

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