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Isak Dinesen Quotes

Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home Picture Quote #1

My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady Picture Quote #1

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred Picture Quote #1

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does Picture Quote #1

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story Picture Quote #1

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power Picture Quote #1

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One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel Picture Quote #1

A great artist is never poor Picture Quote #1

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair Picture Quote #1

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other Picture Quote #1

Some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly Picture Quote #1

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best Picture Quote #1

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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life and knowing themselves that there was no mystery Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear Picture Quote #1

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker’s mind Picture Quote #1

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I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots Picture Quote #1

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road Picture Quote #1

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night Picture Quote #1

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A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you Picture Quote #1

Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home (Isak Dinesen Quotes) My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady (Isak Dinesen Quotes) The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does (Isak Dinesen Quotes) All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story (Isak Dinesen Quotes) We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power (Isak Dinesen Quotes) One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel (Isak Dinesen Quotes) A great artist is never poor (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Write a little every day, without hope, without despair (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly (Isak Dinesen Quotes) One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best (Isak Dinesen Quotes) I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life and knowing themselves that there was no mystery (Isak Dinesen Quotes) 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 Quotes) While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear (Isak Dinesen Quotes) In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect (Isak Dinesen Quotes) 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 Quotes) Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker’s mind (Isak Dinesen Quotes) I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them (Isak Dinesen Quotes) I don’t believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots (Isak Dinesen Quotes) God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road (Isak Dinesen Quotes) When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself (Isak Dinesen Quotes) 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 Quotes) The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night (Isak Dinesen Quotes) A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum (Isak Dinesen Quotes) 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 Quotes) I don’t think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you (Isak Dinesen Quotes) Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be (Isak Dinesen Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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