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Isak Dinesen Quote: “In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “A great artist is never poor.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “We invent the past and remember the future.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 – to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “A poet’s mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “The divine art is the story.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my “life has been wasted” here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society’s door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity. I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature – that is the true carnival!”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “I do not see eye to eye with the camera.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker’s mind.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: “Who am I?””
Isak Dinesen Quote: “It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them...”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.”
Isak Dinesen Quote: “Women, when they are old enough to have done with the business of being women, and can let loose their strength, must be the most powerful creatures in the whole world.”
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